About this ebook
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'Poignant, powerful, just perfect' - Cathy Cassidy
'This poetic novel is sheer perfection ... I loved it' - Irish Examiner
'A compellingly beautiful, utterly seductive debut novel ... Do not miss it' - The Scotsman
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Sarah Crossan's exquisite debut novel explores first love, friendship and quiet courage. It will leave you sad, happy and wanting more.
Sometimes I want to tear off my clothes
And show them I'm the same
Underneath ā
Maybe better.
Life is lonely for Kasienka. She misses her old home in Poland, her mother's heart is breaking, and at her new English school friends are scarce. But when someone new swims into her life, Kasienka learns that there is more than one way to stay afloat.
This stunning novel from Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan explores how to pick up the pieces when everything you know is turned on its head and you have to start all over again.
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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 Toffee.
'Poignant, powerful, just perfect' - Cathy Cassidy
'This poetic novel is sheer perfection ... I loved it' - Irish Examiner
'A compellingly beautiful, utterly seductive debut novel ... Do not miss it' - The Scotsman
_______________
Sarah Crossan's exquisite debut novel explores first love, friendship and quiet courage. It will leave you sad, happy and wanting more.
Sometimes I want to tear off my clothes
And show them I'm the same
Underneath ā
Maybe better.
Life is lonely for Kasienka. She misses her old home in Poland, her mother's heart is breaking, and at her new English school friends are scarce. But when someone new swims into her life, Kasienka learns that there is more than one way to stay afloat.
This stunning novel from Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan explores how to pick up the pieces when everything you know is turned on its head and you have to start all over again.
_______________
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 Toffee.
Ratings and reviews
4.4
14 reviews
Leonna Laing
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January 27, 2015
Good book, I like how its written in the style of poetry
Alicia Vernon
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March 8, 2016
Under 5s? But as a teen i really enjoyed the book
Imran Uddin
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June 18, 2019
Isnt for 5 and up though
About the author
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 Cambridge University. Since completing a masters in creative writing, she has been working to promote creative writing in schools.The Weight of Water and Apple and Rain were both shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. In 2016, Sarahwon the CILIP Carnegie Medal as well as the YA Book Prize, the CBI Book of the Year award and the CLiPPAPoetry Award for her novel, One.
http://www.sarahcrossan.com/
@SarahCrossan
http://www.sarahcrossan.com/
@SarahCrossan
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