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The outstanding novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning, former Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan, thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores love and family during The Great Hunger Ireland, 1846 Nell is working as a scullery maid in the kitchen of the Big House. Once she loved school and books and dreaming. But there's not much choice of work when the land grows food that rots in the earth. Now she is scrubbing, peeling, washing, sweepin...

Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny' Sarah Dunn 'Unique, refreshing and revelatory ... Reads the zeitgeist perfectly' Helen Cullen 'Intriguing, fresh, and satisfyingly complex, it makes you think, and it makes you feel' Lesley Glaister A provocative, tender and darkly funny novel that explores the painful truths of modern-day connection, and all the complicated and unexpected forms that love can take in a lifetime. Imagine discovering...

Brilliant, provocative, and darkly funny' Sarah Dunn 'Unique, refreshing and revelatory ... Reads the zeitgeist perfectly' Helen Cullen 'Intriguing, fresh, and satisfyingly complex, it makes you think, and it makes you feel' Lesley Glaister A provocative, tender and darkly funny novel that explores the painful truths of modern-day connection, and all the complicated and unexpected forms that love can take in a lifetime. Imagine discovering...

Die Schwestern Tippi und Grace sind wie andere Teenager - sie streiten sich, verlieben sich in Jungs, gehen ihren Hobbies nach ... Doch das Besondere an ihnen ist: Sie sind sich mehr verbunden als andere Schwestern - sie sind an der Hüfte zusammengewachsen. Aus der Ich-Perspektive erfahren wir, wie es ist, wenn man nie allein ist und vor eine Wahl gestellt wird, die über Leben und Tod entscheidet. Die preisgekrönte Autorin, Sarah Crossan, bes...

Toffee ist die Geschichte eines Mädchens, das geht, aber nicht weiß, wohin. Viel zu lang ist Allison bei ihrem Vater geblieben. Viel zu lang hat sie den Schmerz und die Schläge ausgehalten. Sie landet irgendwo in einem kleinen Dorf an der See. In einem Haus, von dem sie denkt, es sei verlassen, trifft sie auf Marla, eine alte demente Frau, die hier ganz allein wohnt. Diese hält das Mädchen für ihre Jugendfreundin Toffee und Allison, die es ge...

In ihrem neuen Jugendroman erzählt die preisgekrönte Autorin Sarah Crossan von einer Freundschaft über Generationen hinweg. Die 15-jährige Allison ist von zu Hause abgehauen und würde ihr altes Leben am liebsten vergessen. Unterschlupf findet sie bei Marla, die nach und nach die Erinnerung an sich selbst verliert. Marla hält die unerwartete Besucherin für ihre Jugendfreundin Toffee. Und Allison, die sonst nirgendwohin kann, schlüpft in diese R...

Ein Anruf verändert alles - ein vorwärts peitschender Roman in Versform.Was passiert, wenn der heimliche Geliebte stirbt und man keinem zeigen darf, wie sehr man trauert? Wenn es keinen Ort gibt und keinen Menschen, der um die Qualen wissen darf?Sarah Crossan ist mit diesem Roman ein grandioses Kunststück gelungen: Sie zeigt die Leiden einer getriebenen Frau in schnellen Beats. Ana ist Anwältin, Mutter zweier Kinder und Ehefrau von Paul. Offiz...

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Sometimes it's hard to find the right words. This poetry anthology provides the antidote, offering calm, hope and peace to all. Focusing on positivity, this is the perfect collection to dip into whenever you need a boost. Containing a selection of classic poems from Langston Hughes, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti, as well as contemporary poems chosen by Sarah Crossan - the go-to verse novelist in the UK - this beautiful...

It is 1846 and Ireland is starving. The potatoes are black, people are dying and in the midst of it all Nell must do everything she can to keep her family together, and everyone she loves alive. Even if it means giving up her every want, dream and desire. From multi-award-winning author Sarah Crossan comes a stirring, heart-wrenching novel that explores the value we place on humanity and asks can you survive on love alone?

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Joe hat seinen Bruder seit zehn Jahren nicht gesehen, und das aus dem schlimmsten aller Gründe. Ed sitzt in der Todeszelle. Aber jetzt wurde Eds Hinrichtungsdatum festgelegt und Joe ist wild entschlossen, diese letzten Wochen mit seinem Bruder zu verbringen, egal, was andere Leute denken ... Geschrieben von Carnegie-Medal-Gewinnerin Sarah Crossan, wirft dieser ergreifende, aufwühlende, großherzige Roman wichtige Fragen auf: Welchen Wert misst...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD What would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was yours? For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with Connor, a client at her law firm. Their love has been consigned to hotel rooms and dark corners of pubs, their relationship kept hidden from the world. So the morning that Ana's company receives a call to say that Connor is dead, her secret grief has nowhere to go. Desper...

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A delightfully funny story, ideal for children practising their reading at home or in school. It's time for Fizzy to go to bed, but there's a problem: she just isn't tired! Next door, Mrs Crumbleboom and her band are having a party, and Fizzy wants is to join in the fun. Will Mum let her stay up just a little bit longer? This delightful comedy from Ireland's Children's Laureate Sarah Crossan, starring the characters from Fizzy and Bandit, i...

I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember. Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there - and she mistakes Allison for an old friend from her past named Toffee. Allison is used to hiding ...

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Now available in a gorgeous new package, Sarah Crossan's exquisite multi award-winning novel explores the unbreakable bond and love between sisters. Here we are. And we are living. Isn't that amazing? How we manage to be here at all. Grace and Tippi don't like being stared and sneered at, but they're used to it. They're conjoined twins - united in blood and bone. What they want is to be looked at in turn, like they truly are two people....

The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan. I am not who I say I am.Marla isn't who she thinks she is.I am a girl trying to forget.Marla is a woman trying to remember. Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there ...