Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm GladwellTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Compelling, haunting, tragic stories . . . resonate long after you put the book down' James McConnachie, Sunday Times Book of the Year The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The false conviction of Amanda Knox. Why do we so often get other people wrong? Why is it so hard to detect a lie, read a face or judge a stranger's motives? Using

Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals:Again the growl / Of shutting doors

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fearsome images are summoned and dispelled by the power of faith in ourselves

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Once upon a time there was a little girl called Fiona who lived in Dublin

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Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight

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