The utterly compelling new novel for teenagers from multi-award-winning author, Malorie Blackman.
A hard-hitting teenage novel from the acclaimed author of the bestselling Noughts and Crosses sequence.
MALORIE BLACKMAN has written over sixty books and is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her work, including the Red House Children's Book Award and the Fantastic Fiction Award. Malorie has also been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. In 2005 she was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children's books, and in 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children's literature. She has been described by The Times as 'a national treasure'. Malorie Blackman was the Children's Laureate 2013-15.
An extraordinary book, and truly is Malorie Blackman at her best *
Guardian *
Blackman's emotional intelligence is such that Boys Don't
Cry should be read aloud in every secondary school * The Times
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Her writing at its best, creating characters and a story which,
once read, will not easily go away * Independent *
Blackman grapples with contemporary issues without ever letting
them overwhelm the story and characterisation. A winner * Financial
Times *
This is an adroit investigation of family relations, very clearly
portrayed * Daily Telegraph *
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