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    First of the Last Chances
    First of the Last Chances
    First of the Last Chances
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    First of the Last Chances

    By Sophie Hannah

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    Touching and uplifting, this collection of the poems of Sophie Hannah follows traditional rhyming schemes using language that is always realistic and postmodern. Focusing on love and loss, these poems chronicle the different ways that people, for better or for worse, can be significant to one another.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
    Release dateApr 1, 2003
    ISBN9781847778734
    First of the Last Chances
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    Sophie Hannah

    Sophie Hannah is the internationally bestselling author of 9 psychological thrillers, which have been published in more than 20 countries and adapted for television. Her novel The Carrier won the 2013 Specsavers National Book Awards Crime Thriller of the Year. Sophie is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and as a poet has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.

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