The blue bedspread

Raj Kamal Jha

earliest edition we have, 2000 Pan MacMillan, 2009

"A midnight phone call awakens a man to inform him that his sister has died in childbirth. He is told he must keep the orphaned baby girl overnight, until her new, adopting parents can collect her. Over the course of that hot night in Calcutta, the man hurriedly writes stories to the baby sleeping on a blue bedspread in the next room: stories of the family she was born into, stories of the mother she will never know....

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Blue Bedspread edition · 2022 · Pan Macmillan · 9781035004836
Blue Bedspread edition · 2014 · Pan Macmillan · 240 pages · 9781447274865
Blue Bedspread edition · 2012 · Penguin Random House · 9781299046214
The Blue Bedspread edition · 2009 · Pan MacMillan · 9780330474498
The blue bedspread edition · 2000 · Picador · 200 pages · 9780330373869

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