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Toffee

Sarah Crossan

£8.99

Allison is in danger at home. Her stepmother has run away and her father is getting worse. So she runs away too and with no where to live finds herself hiding out, miles from home, in an elderly woman’s shed. But this woman, Marla, has dementia and doesn’t recognise her as Allison, believing she is an old friend from her past called Toffee. So this is who Allison becomes, morphing into a person Marla usually knows and trusts but sometimes fears and fights. As their bond grows, Allison begins to ask herself – where is home? What is a family? And most importantly, who am I, really?

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Publish Date: 06/02/2020
ISBN: 9781408868133 Category: Children's Books Tags: Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories, Children's / Teenage fiction: General fiction, Children's / Teenage fiction: Romance & relationships stories, Children's / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse, Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: runaways, Children's / Teenage: Poetry
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‘Utterly sublime’ – Cecelia Ahern
‘Impossible not to read it in a single gulp’ – The Times
‘Undoubtedly one of the best books of the year’ – Irish Times
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS

WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG YA AWARD
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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.

When Allison runs away from home, she doesn’t expect to be taken in by Marla, an elderly woman with dementia, who mistakes her for an old friend called Toffee. Allison is used to hiding who she really is and trying to be what other people want her to be. And so Toffee is who she becomes.

But as her bond with Marla grows, Allison begins to ask herself: Where is home? What is a family? And, most importantly, Who am I, really?
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‘Compelling and beautifully wrought’ – The Sunday Times
‘A book that changes its reader for the better’ – Guardian
‘One of our most original writers’ – John Boyne
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Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation…
Don’t miss Sarah Crossan’s other irresistibly page-turning books Moonrise, One, Apple and Rain, and The Weight of Water.

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Weight 336 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 26 mm
Author

Crossan, Sarah

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint

Bloomsbury Young Adult

Cover

Paperback

Pages

398

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Young Adult / Code: C

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