My Heart & Other Breakables: How I lost my mum, found my dad, and made friends with catastrophe
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Alex Barclay is the award-winning author of several bestselling thrillers. She studied journalism in college, and went on to work as a journalist and copywriter before writing her first novel, Darkhouse, a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Alex won the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award for her third novel, Blood Runs Cold.
My Heart and Other Breakables is her debut for 11+ readers.
<p>‘Barclay has nailed Ellery’s teen voice perfectly and there’s lots of humour in this moving tale’ <strong><em>Irish Independent</em> Best Books for Young Readers on their Holidays</strong></p>
<p>‘Tender and often laugh-out-loud funny, too’ <strong><em>iNews</em>, Best Kids Books for Summer</strong></p>
<p>‘Sweet and funny . . . Ellery’s voice is fresh and engaging’ <strong>Sarah Webb</strong></p>
<p>‘Written with a lot of humour, this book is a joy to read and genuinely moving’ <em>Irish Independent, Best Children’s Books of the Year</em></p>
This is the diary of me, Ellery Brown, aged fifteen and a half. I’m supposed to be recording my feelings about my mum, since she died, so why do I keep thinking about who my dad might be instead? Until now, I’ve had literally NO IDEA who my dad is.
My best friend Meg and I have narrowed it down to three authors my mum knew. (She was an author too.) But as they’re all on different CONTINENTS, we’re going to need fake IDs, passports, plane tickets and to get away from my self-obsessed grandmother . . . One thing’s for sure: this year is going to be INTERESTING!
A funny diary novel about friendship and family
Competition: Geek Girl;Confessions of Georgia Nicholson;Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging. Holly Smale;Louise Rennison; Jacqueline Wilson
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Alex Barclay is the award-winning author of several bestselling thrillers. She studied journalism in college, and went on to work as a journalist and copywriter before writing her first novel, Darkhouse, a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. Alex won the Ireland AM Crime Fiction Award for her third novel, Blood Runs Cold.
My Heart and Other Breakables is her debut for 11+ readers.