Sam Hepburn,
If You Were Me
Chicken House, 2015
ISBN 9781909489806
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Sam Hepburn lives in London with her husband, three children a dog, and a goldfish. She was brought up in England by her English mother, and her father was from Sudan. She lived there until she was three and she has begun to revisit her Sudanese family regularly in her twenties. She read modern languages at Cambridge University and has worked in Lebanon, Germany, Italy and America and made lots of documentaries for television.
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Two young people from very different backgrounds star in this crime mystery. Aliya’s family have fled to England from Afghanistan, chased out by the Taliban. Dan lives in London with his parents, reluctantly helping his dad with his plumbing business when he can’t get out of it. The two are brought together when Dan witnesses Aliya’s brother Behrouz being beaten and kidnapped. For reasons of his own, Dan can’t go to the police but when Behrouz is accused of plotting a terrorist attack he decides to help Aliya reveal the truth. Together they untangle a complex web of corruption and deceit, risking their own lives in the process. Sam Hepburn’s plotting is excellent, the tension never lets up and this is a seriously good thriller with a shocking final twist.
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Sam’s real name is Sam Osman. Sam Hepburn is her pen name.
Find out more about Sam on her website www.samosmanbooks.com and follow her on Twitter @Sam_Osman_Books
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