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Description
WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG YA AWARD 2019
The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan.
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.
Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there – and she mistakes Allison for an old friend from her past 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. After all, it means she has a place to stay. There are worse places she could be.
But as their bond grows, and Allison discovers how much Marla needs a real friend, she begins to ask herself –where is home? What is a family? And most importantly, who am I, really?
Product details
| Published | 02 May 2019 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 416 |
| ISBN | 9781408868126 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury YA |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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[Sarah Crossan] is the princess of pacing … Crossan always finds humour and humanity in the darkness; it's impossible not to read it in a single gulp
The Times, Children's Book of the Week
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A moving and powerful novel from one of our most original writers. Sarah has almost created an entirely new form of writing in her novels that is hers and hers alone and that works wonderfully well
John Boyne
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It reminded me of Cinder toffee- there are familiar flavours and notes and moments of powerful sweetness, but she complicates them with such power and subtlety, in a way that doesn't alienate the reader. The tang of fire is in there, always, leaving a unique aftertaste. You wouldn't mistake it for any other writer, and you won't soon forget it
Deirdre Sullivan
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[I] absolutely loved it. I am completely in awe of Sarah's ability to conjure such vivid characters and create such deeply moving stories with so few words. Tender, painful, full of heart and humanity - it's another masterpiece
Tanya Landman
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Sarah puts love and light into difficult places. This beautiful story will haunt you
Jenny Downham
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Any reader with a heart will weep buckets
The Sunday Times on MOONRISE

























