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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. Eaten up with bitterness, Jude blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered. Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #309085 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-07
• Released on: 2007-11-05
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Binding: Audio CD

Review
Sephy is alone and pregnant living in an apartheid state. Her own father had her light-skinned lover Callum executed, and she's despised by Callum's brother Jude. In this racist society, where black-skinned Crosses subject white-skinned naughts to crushing racial prejudice, Sephy stands in a dangerous middle ground. She wants to raise her child in peace, but both naughts and Crosses condemn her, and Jude wants to exact revenge. Both Sephy and Jude cross race borders in their quests, Sephy joining a naught rock band and Jude romancing a liberal-minded Cross woman. As in Black and White (2005), the ideological message is heavy handed, somewhat shallow and inconsistent: Mixed-race children are either extremely rare, or common only on society's margins; naughts claim a unique vernacular which is never used in the text; a Cross woman is portrayed as remarkably kind and intelligent with no exploration of how wealth and privilege make such traits easier to come by. The personal tragedies of Sephy and Jude's lives in a broken world, however, are rich and genuine. (Fiction. YA) (Kirkus Reviews)

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. Eaten up with bitterness, Jude blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered. Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?

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An abridgement of Knife Edge (C) Malorie Blackman 2004

Published by Doubleday in hardback and Corgi in paperback

Produced by Stuart Owen

Abridged by Sue Cook
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Manufactured and printed in UK

(P) Random House Audiobooks 2006