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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN´S BOOK AWARD 2017
´Devastating . Any reader with a heart will weep buckets´ Sunday Times Book of the Week

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN´S BOOK AWARD 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019

´Devastating . Any reader with a heart will weep buckets´ Sunday Times Book of the Week

They think I hurt someone.
But I didn´t. You hear?
Cos people are gonna be telling you
all kinds of lies.
I need you to know the truth.

Joe hasn´t seen his brother for ten years, and it´s for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row.

But now Ed´s execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think ...

From one-time winner and two-time Carnegie Medal shortlisted author Sarah Crossan, this poignant, stirring, huge-hearted novel asks big questions. What value do you place on life? What can you forgive? And just how do you say goodbye?

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Devastating . Any reader with a heart will weep buckets Sunday Times, Book of the Week

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Crossan, Sarah
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, Sarah won the CILIP Carnegie Medal as well as the YA Book Prize, the CBI Book of the Year award and the CLiPPA Poetry Award for her novel, One.
http://www.sarahcrossan.com/
@SarahCrossan

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