_______________ ‘Devastating … Any reader with a heart will weep buckets’ – Sunday Times Book of the Week ‘Impossible to put down’ – The Times ‘An outstanding and daring achievement’ – Irish Examiner _______________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE YA BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLiPPA AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL _______________ They think I hurt someone. I didn’t. You hear me? Because people are going to tell you all kinds of lies, and I need you to know the truth. Joe hasn’t set eyes on his brother in ten years, and for the most brutal of reasons: Ed is on death row. Now that his execution date has finally been set, Joe is determined to spend those final weeks by his side, whatever anyone else thinks … From Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan comes a poignant, stirring, huge-hearted novel that asks the biggest questions there are: what value do you place on a life? What can you forgive? And how do you even begin to say goodbye? _______________ Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation… Don’t miss Sarah Crossan’s other irresistibly page-turning books Toffee, One, Apple and Rain, and The Weight of Water.
ISBN 13: 9781408867815
Author: Sarah Crossan
