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<strong>SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2002</strong>
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<strong>A stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in Belfast, from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel, <em>Milkman</em>. </strong>
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<strong>&#8217;Marvellous: shocking, moving, evocative&#8217; <em>Daily Mail</em></strong>
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<p>Every single night and every single day Amelia goes upstairs to look at her treasure: a miniature plastic sheep, a Black Queen chess piece, a penny prayer for serenity, a tube of glitter &#8211; and thirty-seven black rubber bullets she&#8217;s collected ever since the British Army started firing them&#8230;</p>