Toffee
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By Crossan, Sarah
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The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning, and Laureate na nOg, Sarah Crossan. I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember. Allison is in danger at home. Her stepmother ...has run away and her father is getting worse. So she runs away too and with no where to live finds herself hiding out, miles from home, in an elderly woman's shed. But this woman, Marla, has dementia and doesn't recognise her as Allison, believing she is an old friend from her past called Toffee. So this is who Allison becomes, morphing into a person Marla usually knows and trusts but sometimes fears and fights. As their bond grows, Allison begins to ask herself - where is home? What is a family? And most importantly, who am I, really?
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ISBN |
9781408868126 |
Released NZ |
17 Jun 2019 |
Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Format |
Hardback |
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Availability |
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ISBN-13 |
9781408868126 |
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Stock |
Available |
Status |
In-stock at publisher; ships 7-14 working days |
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Publisher |
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Imprint |
Bloomsbury YA |
Released |
17 Jun 2019
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Publication Country |
United Kingdom |
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Format |
Hardback
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Author(s) |
By Crossan, Sarah |
Category |
Fiction (Child / Teen) Wellbeing
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Number of Pages |
416 |
Dimensions |
Width: 129mm Height: 198mm
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Dewey Code |
823.92 |
Weight |
486g |
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Interest Age |
13+ years |
Reading Age |
13+ years |
Library of Congress |
Family & home stories Children's / Teenage, Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories |
NBS Text |
Young Adult Fiction |
ONIX Text |
Young adult |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
NZ Review |
Any reader with a heart will weep buckets * PRAISE FOR MOONRISE - The Sunday Times * A moving account of sibling relationships, poverty and powerlessness * PRAISE FOR MOONRISE - Irish Times * Moonrise tells a story of human cost and exposes the injustice and discrimination that so often lies at the heart of the death penalty. Readers can't help but reflect on deep values of truth, freedom, equality and justice. A gripping, powerful and exceptionally moving story * PRAISE FOR MOONRISE - Amnesty International * Truly remarkable * PRAISE FOR ONE - Irish Times * Imagined with empathy, it will shake up preconceptions and move readers to tears * PRAISE FOR ONE - Sunday Times Book of the Week * |
UK Review |
Bertrams Star Rating: 4 stars (out of 5) |
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Author's Bio
Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London and New York, and now lives in Hertfordshire. She graduated with a degree in Philosophy and Literature before training as an English and drama teacher at the University of Cambridge. The Weight of Water and Apple and Rain were both shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. In 2016, Sarah won the CILIP Carnegie Medal as well as the YA Book Prize, the CBI Book of the Year award and the CLiPPA Poetry Award for her novel, One. Sarah is the current Laureate na nOg (Ireland's Children's Literature Laureate). sarahcrossan.com @SarahCrossan
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