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Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano Reading Group Offer

‘Ann Napolitano’s writing is astonishing. I’m in awe’ Marian Keyes

‘Outstanding, beautifully written, a compulsive read’ John Boyne

A deeply compassionate and compelling novel about the sole survivor of a plane crash, set to be the next literary fiction blockbuster.

To celebrate the upcoming publication of Dear Edward, Viking are offering 5 reading groups the chance to win 10 copies to read!

Dear Edward is a luminous, life-affirming novel about a 12-year-old boy who is the sole survivor of a deadly plane crash.

One summer morning, a flight takes off from New York to Los Angeles. There are 216 passengers aboard: among them a young woman taking a pregnancy test in the airplane toilet; a Wall Street millionaire flirting with the air hostess; an injured soldier returning from Afghanistan; and two beleaguered parents moving across the country with their adolescent sons, bickering over who gets the window seat.

When the plane suddenly crashes in a field in Colorado, the younger of these boys, 12-year-old Edward Adler, is the sole survivor…

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