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Opening your find
A fire alarm empties Hawthorn House in minutes. What follows will take far longer to resolve. When residents are forced from their homes, every name, address and relationship becomes part of an emergency record. But Tia Morgan was never meant to appear on any list.
She has been staying secretly in Nathan Price's flat, caught between homelessness and the risk that her presence could cost him his tenancy. During the evacuation, Nathan must decide how much to reveal.
His attempt to protect them both leaves firefighters searching for a woman they cannot identify - and Tia facing the consequences of a choice she was never allowed to make. As displaced residents are moved through hotels, temporary placements and official reviews, Lisa and Debbie Fielding are drawn back into the fragile network of Hawthorn Estate.
Each tries to help without taking control. Each must learn where responsibility ends, who has the right to decide, and whether safety can exist without surrendering privacy. The Ones They Move is a sharply observed literary novel about housing, disability, family and the systems that count people without always seeing them.
It is Book Two of The Hawthorn Trilogy .
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