''Seesaw'', is a 1996 novel by English author Deborah Moggach, first published in 1996 by

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and recommended in OUP's ''Good Fiction Guide''.

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.

Television adaptation

Deborah Moggach also wrote the script for a three-part

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of the novel, first broadcast in March 1998 on

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References

External links

* * {{IMDb title, id=0145633, title=Seesaw 1996 British novels Novels about child abduction English novels Heinemann (publisher) books Novels by Deborah Moggach Novels set in London