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A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the "Noughts & Crosses" trilogy. Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her daughter has a nought father, and Sephy may have to, once again, take sides. Readership level: 12+.
Synopsis
Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father... Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered... Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge.
