A Song for Issy Bradley Melissa Harrison and love contained in these

and love contained in these pages is a miraculous achievement' Ann Patchett

But going in search of her daughter brings Nora into contact with a past that she would rather forget

Why did her birth mother abandon her in a cardboard box on a church step twenty-five years ago

to follow his star

Isadora detects the sinister hand of Devereux

A Song for Issy Bradley Melissa Harrison and love contained in theseSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD I cannot remember when a novel has seduced me so completelyit feels as if a trusted old friend is telling you the story, that the characters are people you know The Times A terrific book . . . I loved A SONG FOR ISSY BRADLEY. Its wry, smart, human, and rather miraculously, avoids mawkishness. And, ultimately, its moving and comforting in a way that makes sense even to the agnostic'. Nick Hornby, The Believer