Sarah Crossan

Toffee

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Produktbeschreibung

_______________'Utterly sublime' - Cecelia Ahern'Impossible not to read it in a single gulp' - The Times'Undoubtedly one of the best books of the year' - Irish Times_______________SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDSWINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG YA AWARD_______________I am not who I say I am.Marla isn't who she thinks she is.I am a girl trying to forget.Marla is a woman trying to remember.When Allison runs away from home, she doesn't expect to be taken in by Marla, an elderly woman with dementia, who mistakes her for an old friend called Toffee. Allison is used to hiding who she really is and trying to be what other people want her to be. And so Toffee is who she becomes. But as her bond with Marla grows, Allison begins to ask herself: Where is home? What is a family? And, most importantly, Who am I, really?_______________'Compelling and beautifully wrought' - The Sunday Times'A book that changes its reader for the better' - Guardian'One of our most original writers' - John Boyne_______________Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation...Don't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Moonrise, One, Apple and Rain, and The Weight of Water.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade / Bloomsbury YA
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 286740
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Altersempfehlung: ab 12 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9781408868133
• ISBN-10: 140886813X
• Artikelnr.: 57803028

Autorenporträt

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. Sarah is the current Laureate na nÓg (Ireland's Children's Literature Laureate). sarahcrossan.com @SarahCrossan

Rezensionen

Impossible not to read it in a single gulp The Times