_______________ ‘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 AWARDS WINNER 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 end up taken in by Marla, an elderly woman with dementia who mistakes her for an old friend called Toffee. Allison is used to concealing who she really is and becoming whatever other people need her to be – so Toffee is exactly who she becomes. But as her bond with Marla deepens, Allison starts asking herself: where is home? What makes 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.
ISBN 13: 9781408868133
Author: Sarah Crossan
