About the Author

Louisa Reid has lived in Cambridge, London and Zurich, and now lives near Manchester. She graduated with a degree in English from Oxford before training as an English teacher at Cambridge University and she continues to work as a teacher. Louisa is the author of four novels for young adults; Black Heart Blue and Gloves Off were both nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.

Reviews

This is the book I have always needed, it is F*****G BRILLIANT and everyone should read it.
*Nikita Gill*

A beautiful, biting page-turner... is it any different for young women, these days? Reid's novel provides -- as the best fiction does -- a nuanced, thought provoking answer to this question.
*Irish Times*

Brisk, disturbing and very satisfying
*Daily Mail*

Written in verse and wildly original, this passionate tale of coercive control and female solidarity is nothing short of a work of art.
*Zoella*

We've never read anything quite like this before... the poetry sings so beautifully... you'll be completely submerged
*Cosmopolitan*

Brilliant and beautifully written. It'll have you raging and rejoicing till the very last page.
*Manjeet Mann, winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2021*

I devoured it both as a breath-taking, page-turning novel on betrayal and a series of startling poems, chiselled from bone. The Poet is going to e x p l o d e into 2022 and leave us all spilt and shuddering! Astounding book.
*Helen Paris*

A novel in verse about poetry, female desire and achievement, gender politics and revenge, it weeps, rages and triumphs in words as exquisite as emotion. Loved it.
*Julie Cohen*

A thunderstorm of female power with nods to the greatest poets of all time. Drop everything and read.
*Ericka Waller*

Superb . . . Raw, angry and utterly compelling . . . The writing is stunning - I hope it'll put verse novels on the map.
*Hush - Five Unmissable Books for 2022*