Strangers – Rosie Thomas

Strangers Annie and Steve are caught in a bomb blast that destroys the Oxford Street department store where they were both doing their Christmas shopping. Rescued from the rubble where they had talked to keep one another alive, life gets more complicated as they each cope with the intense emotions generated by this shared experience and the fall out for their nearest and dearest.

Whilst the story is timeless the 1986/1987 setting hasn’t aged so well – it’s a world before mobile phones, when wives and mothers managed on their housekeeping – but the novel is all the more interesting for that.

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