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  <title><![CDATA[Blindsight]]></title>
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  <default_description>Alice Ferry lives in Wellington, and keeps an eye on her brother, though he doesn't know it.  Alice as narrator begins telling us the story from their childhood, but there are things she's hiding.

When a young man shows up on her doorstep, claiming to be her brother Gordon's grandson, things get complicated.
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2005</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Blindsight</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Maurice Gee]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this, although I am starting to get a bit jaded with Maurice Gee's habit of sensationalist twists in the last five pages. This one would have been fine, I think, had it not been for the part where something quite similar (well, maybe not similar, but analagous) happened in the other two Gee ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68101187">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really oved this book. It is definitely a favourite. Gee writes so well and the storyline was excellent.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful writing - will definitely read more Maurice Gee]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[He's done it before and done it better. Phoned in.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good NZ reading --]]></body>
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