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Biographical note
Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and two sons."An addictive, romantic epistolary novel"
Guardian
"I loved this book. An unputdownable friendship story told in letters so vivid and immersive that I felt like joining in with the correspondence"
- Hilary McKay,
"Building on her previous historical fiction exploring the restrictions on women in society, the award-winning, always-excellent Sally Nicholls moves to the late Victorian era... This immersive, uplifting book is an absolute delight"
Irish Times
"With great affection and sympathy, these winning heroines forge their own paths in this highly readable, tautly paced work"
- starred review, Publishers Weekly
"The novel is heart-warming, intelligent and exciting, and thoroughly recommended for girls (and boys) hovering on the cusp of adolescence. I loved it"
- Philip Womack, Literary Review