A new and truly powerful novel from internationally bestselling Jenny Downham, author of Before I Die.
Jenny Downham trained as an actor and worked in community theatre
for many years, using improvisation techniques to take stories to
young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in
prisons, hospitals, youth clubs, housing estates, anywhere that
theatre rarely existed - she spent many years putting herself in
imaginary situations and playing all sorts of people she would
never normally be cast as. It was a perfect apprenticeship for
writing.
Her first novel, Before I Die, is an international bestseller. It
won the Branford Boase Award for most promising debut, the
Australian Silver Inky Award for best international novel, was
shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was made
into the blockbuster film, Now Is Good. Jenny's second book, You
Against Me, won the inaugural Waterstones Teenage Book Prize, and
Unbecoming, was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and won the
Stonewall Honor Award from the American Library Association. Jenny
is also the author of the critically acclaimed Furious Thing, a
powerful novel about emotional abuse and coercive control. Jenny
lives in London.
This life-affirming story about a complicated family . . . is
stunningly told
*The Times Children's Book of the Week*
This is a beautifully drawn portrait of three generations of women,
hugely ambitious in its interwoven examination of sexual identity,
family secrets, torn loyalties, family secrets, torn loyalties and
the life-affirming power of breaking away from suffocating
conventions
*Daily Mail*
This moving tale of three generations of women shouldn't be
missed
*Closer*
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