Toffee

The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate na nOg Sarah Crossan. 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?

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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

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Crossan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 5 to 11
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.05.2019
• EAN: 9781526608147
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-0814-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
• Series: 191 JEUNESSE; 191 JEUNESSE
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Mental Illness, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / Homelessness & Poverty, Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 13 years, Poetry (Children's / Teenage)