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NELL is a cartographer, the daughter of cartographer parents, in Peng Shepherd’s delicious urban fantasy, The Cartographers (Orion, £14.99).
She’s been estranged from her famous father for several years when he is found dead in his office at the New York Public Library.
Among all the priceless maps he was responsible for, Nell learns that he was inexplicably obsessed with one mass-produced, but now oddly scarce, highway map.
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