SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLiPPA AWARD 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2019

‘Devastating … Any reader with a heart will weep buckets’ Sunday Times Book of the Week

They think I hurt someone. But I didn’t. You hear? Cos people are gonna be telling you all kinds of lies. I need you to know the truth.

Joe hasn’t seen his brother for ten years, and it’s for the most brutal of reasons. Ed is on death row.

But now Ed’s execution date has been set, and Joe is determined to spend those last weeks with him, no matter what other people think …

From one-time winner and two-time Carnegie Medal shortlisted author Sarah Crossan, this poignant, stirring, huge-hearted novel asks big questions. What value do you place on life? What can you forgive? And just how do you say goodbye?

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781408867815

Publisher

Bloomsbury YA

Date published

July 5th, 2018

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