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Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2018 & longlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2018

Award-winning author Susin Nielsen´s brilliant new novel explores heartbreak and tragedy in the way only she can - with a big dose of humour, sarcasm ... and lots of cats.
Petula´s pessimistic world is turned upside down when she meets Jacob, an optimist with a long-hidden secret.

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Petula has avoided friendship and happiness ever since tragedy struck her family and took her beloved younger sister Maxine. Worse, Petula blames herself. If only she´d kept an eye on her sister, if only she´d sewn the button Maxine choked on better, if only...
Now her anxiety is getting out of control, she is forced to attend the world´s most hopeless art therapy class. But one day, in walks the Bionic Man: a charming, amazingly tall newcomer called Jacob, who is also an amputee. Petula´s ready to freeze him out, just like she did with her former best friend, but when she´s paired with Jacob for a class project, there´s no denying they have brilliant ideas together - ideas like remaking Wuthering Heights with cats.
But Petula and Jacob each have desperately painful secrets in their pasts - and when the truth comes out, there´s no way Petula is ready for it.

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"Hilarious, heart-warming and beautifully unexpected - a real keeper" Lisa Williamson

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Susin Nielsen got her start writing for popular television series, Degrassi Junior High. Since then, she´s written for many Canadian TV shows and her young adult novels have received considerable critical acclaim. Word Nerd and My Messed-Up Life won multiple Young Readers´ Choice Awards. The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen won the UKLA Award, the prestigious Governor General´s Literary Award, the Canadian Library Association´s Children´s Book of the Year and many Young Readers´ Choice Awards, while We Are All Made of Molecules was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Susin lives in Vancouver with her family and two extremely destructive cats.

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