New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009). SIGNED - The author's second novel, short listed for the Costa Award. "What happens on the beach is brutal. . . it braids the fates of a 16-year-old Nigerian orphan (who calls herself Little Bee) and a well-off British couple - journalists trying to repair their strained marriage with a free holiday - who should have stayed behind their resort's walls. The tide of that event carries Little Bee back to their world - she shows us the infinite rifts in a globalized world, where any distance can be crossed in a day - with the right papers - and 'no one likes each other, but everyone likes U2.' Where you have to give up the safety you'd assumed as your birthright if you decide to save the girl gazing at you through razor wire, left to the wolves of a failing state." (Mari Malcolm) SIGNED on the title page with a green author's "Authorized" stamp. Notes. 271 pp plus a reading group guide and questions and answers with the author. ISBN: 978-1416589648.