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Seesaw (novel)

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print & Audio

ISBN
  
0-434-00312-3

Author
  
Deborah Moggach

Publisher
  
Heinemann

Genres
  
Fiction, Novel

Publication date
  
11 Mar 1996

Pages
  
320

Originally published
  
11 March 1996

Page count
  
320

Country
  
United Kingdom

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Deborah Moggach books
  
These foolish things, Heartbreak Hotel, Porky, Twin Beds: Christmas at Heartbr, Something to Hide

Seesaw, is a 1996 novel by English author Deborah Moggach, first published in 1996 by Heinemann and recommended in OUP's Good Fiction Guide.

Contents

Plot introduction

Hannah, the seventeen-year-old daughter of upper middle class Morris and Val Price, is kidnapped with a half-million-pound ransom. The novel focuses on both the Price family and the kidnappers in the time leading up to the abduction. The book also focuses on the relationships between Jon and Eva, the two kidnappers, and Hannah as well as what happens to all characters following her release.

Reception

  • 'provocative, enthralling, bang-up-to-the-minute' - Daily Mail
  • 'a gripping and thoroughly intelligent read' - Evening Standard
  • Television adaptation

    Deborah Moggach also wrote the script for a three-part television adaptation of the novel, first broadcast in March 1998 on ITV.

    Cast

  • Morris Price - David Suchet
  • Val Price - Geraldine James
  • Hannah Price - Joanna Potts
  • Jon - Neil Stuke
  • Eva - Amanda Ooms
  • References

    Seesaw (novel) Wikipedia


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