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Queen of Teen 2014 Juno Dawson is the multi award-winning author of dark teen thrillers Hollow Pike, Cruel Summer, Say Her Name and Under My Skin. In 2015, she released her first contemporary romance, All ofthe Above. Margot and Me was published in 2017 and nominated for the Carnegie CILIP Medal 2018. Her first non-fiction book, Being a Boy, tackled puberty, sex and relationships, and a follow-up for young LGBT people, This Book Is Gay, came out in 2014, and a guide to mental health for young people, Mind Your Head, followed in2016.
Juno is a regular contributor to Attitude, GT, Glamour and the Guardian and has contributed to news items concerning sexuality, identity, literature and education on BBC Woman's Hour, Front Row, This Morning and Newsnight.She is a School Role Model for the charity Stonewall, and also works with the charity First Story to visit schools serving low-income communities. Juno's titles have received rave reviews and her books have been translated into more than ten languages. Say Her Name was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2015, and Margot and Me was shortlisted for the Lancashire Libraries Book of the Year 2018. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Women in Creative Industries award.
Juno writes fulltime and lives in Brighton. Follow Juno on Twitter: @junodawson or on Facebook at Juno Dawson Books.
Beautiful, moving and witty
Cecilia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love You
Completely captivating and full of emotion
Lisa Williamson, author of The Art of Being Normal
Witty, intriguing and heartwarming
Non Pratt, author of Trouble
Dawson deftly intertwines stories from two generations to make an immensely readable whole...Dawson's understanding of adolescence and her attention to the details of different periods bring both protagonists stories sharply into focus and provide a satisfying emotional core, while a large cast and a busy plot drive the story along at a cracking pace.
Julia Eccleshare in The Observer
A family drama set in the not-so-far-away 1990s leadsto profound insights into our relationship with history when Fliss illicitly readsher grandmother Margot's Second World War diaries. Margot was once much likeher granddaughter: a bright, bossy, fashion-conscious young Londoner adjustingto life in rural Wales after a catastrophe . . . An account of Margot'spersonal losses make the wartime death toll real to Fliss, while the wise butspiky grandparent finds it easier to build bridges on paper than in person
Guardian
Fliss's mum needs peace and quiet to recuperate from a long illness, so they both move to the countryside to live with Margot, Fliss's stern and bullying grandmother. Life on the farm is tough and life at school is even tougher, so when Fliss unearths Margot's wartime diary, she sees an opportunity to get her own back.
But Fliss soon discovers Margot's life during the evacuation was full of adventure, mystery . . . and even passion. What's more, she learns a terrible secret that could tear her whole family apart . . .
But Fliss soon discovers Margot's life during the evacuation was full of adventure, mystery .
How can you hate someone in the present and love them in the past?
Nominated for the Carnegie CILIP Medal 2018
Shortlisted for the Lancashire Libraries Book of the Year 2018
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Queen of Teen 2014 Juno Dawson is the multi award-winning author of dark teen thrillers Hollow Pike, Cruel Summer, Say Her Name and Under My Skin. In 2015, she released her first contemporary romance, All ofthe Above. Margot and Me was published in 2017 and nominated for the Carnegie CILIP Medal 2018. Her first non-fiction book, Being a Boy, tackled puberty, sex and relationships, and a follow-up for young LGBT people, This Book Is Gay, came out in 2014, and a guide to mental health for young people, Mind Your Head, followed in2016.
Juno is a regular contributor to Attitude, GT, Glamour and the Guardian and has contributed to news items concerning sexuality, identity, literature and education on BBC Woman's Hour, Front Row, This Morning and Newsnight.She is a School Role Model for the charity Stonewall, and also works with the charity First Story to visit schools serving low-income communities. Juno's titles have received rave reviews and her books have been translated into more than ten languages. Say Her Name was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2015, and Margot and Me was shortlisted for the Lancashire Libraries Book of the Year 2018. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the Women in Creative Industries award.
Juno writes fulltime and lives in Brighton. Follow Juno on Twitter: @junodawson or on Facebook at Juno Dawson Books.