Description

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN S BOOK AWARD 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018
LONGLISTED 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?