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Apple and Rain

Sarah Crossan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:2nd May '19

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A stunning new package and branding for the incomparable, multi-award-winning, and Laureate na nÓg, Sarah Crossan. Apple and Rain was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2015.

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'This poignant, realistic tale is about learning to love and taking responsibility, and how poems can tell the truth' - Sunday Times Book of the Week
'A story of the redeeming power of love. It's beautifully written and it made me cry but it also made me laugh' - The Bookbag
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL


All the time Mum was away,
Eleven long years,
I saved up my hopes
Like little pennies in a jar.

Apple's mother disappeared years ago, leaving Apple with her nana and a lot of unanswered questions. But when she unexpectedly explodes back into Apple's life like a comet, homecoming is bittersweet. It's only when Apple meets someone more lost than she is that she begins to see things as they really are.

This beautiful novel from multi-award-winning author Sarah Crossan explores family, friendship and reconciliation. It is a story about how messy, complicated and surprising love can be.
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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, Toffee, and The Weight of Water.

This poignant, realistic tale is about learning to love and taking responsibility, and how poems can tell the truth … * Sunday Times Book of the Week *
A story of the redeeming power of love. It's beautifully written and it made me cry but it also made me laugh * The Bookbag *
Poignant, powerful, just perfect * Cathy Cassidy on THE WEIGHT OF WATER *
Succinct, with a gentle lyricism, the poems are telling about immigration, prejudice, self-delusion, families and first love, on the way to a life-changing conclusion * The Sunday Times - Children's Books of the Week on THE WEIGHT OF WATER *
Exquistely and touchingly written * Irish Times on THE WEIGHT OF WATER *

ISBN: 9781526606761

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 302g

368 pages