From the master storyteller, Aidan Chambers, comes this new thought-provoking novel for teenagers.
From the master storyteller, Aidan Chambers, comes this new thought-provoking novel for teenagers.
Aidan Chambers was born in County Durham in 1934. After national service in the Royal Navy he became a teacher and then, for seven years, a monk. His young adult novels have been widely acclaimed, with POSTCARDS FROM NO-MAN'S LAND winning the prestigious Carnegie Medal and the US Michael L Printz Award. With his wife Nancy he ran Signal magazine and he has served as the president of the School Library Association. His devoted services to children's literature were recognised by his receipt of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.
Deliberate in pace and carefully insightful in its investigation of
character, Chamber’s latest is a work of art that repays multiple
readings
*Booklist*
Packed to the brim with challenging ideas, the latest from Chambers
is simultaneously an acutely observed and surprising love story. An
organic yet intricately crafted story of self-discovery . . . This
is a generous gift
*Publishers Weekly*
This is a teasingly provocative and touching cross-generational
story, written with a rare candour about love, sex, thoughts of
suicide and growing old
*Guardian*
Chambers is so skilled, so calmly truthful in his writing. What
emerges is not just a moving, unexpected story of the complexity of
teenagers, but also a story of later life, of ageing and loss, and
what experience really means
*Guardian*
It takes a writer with the superb skill and sensitivity of Chambers
to adapt the Cyrano de Bergerac story and turn it into a modern
tale of grief, growth and acceptance . . . Great tenderness,
authentic dialogue and elegantly crafted plotting. A book to be
read and re-read
*Daily Mail*
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