When Apple’s mother returns after eleven years of absence, Apple feels whole
again. She will have an answer to her burning question – why did you go? And
she will have someone who understands what it means to be a teenager – unlike
Nana. But just like the stormy Christmas Eve when she left, her mother’s
homecoming is bitter sweet, and Apple wonders who is really looking after whom.
It’s only when Apple meets someone more lost than she is, that she begins to
see things as they really are.
Like a brilliant hybrid of Cathy Cassidy and Jacqueline Wilson, Sarah Crossan
entices you into her world, then tells a moving, perceptive and beautifully
crafted, Carnegie Shortlisted story which has the power to make you laugh and
cry.
Shortlisted for The CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2015.”