Sarah Crossan,
One
Bloomsbury, 2015
ISBN 9781408863114
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Originally from Dublin, Sarah Crossan is a Philosophy and Literature graduate who currently lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and their daughter. Before taking up writing full time she trained as an English and Drama teacher at Cambridge University and worked to promote creative writing in schools. Sarah then taught English at a school in New York City before completing a Masters degree in Creative Writing at the University of Warwick in 2003. In 2010, she received an Edward Albee Fellowship for writing. Sarah has always wanted to have a sister and this partly inspired the content of this book.
Written in free verse, the story is about Grace and Tippi, sixteen year old conjoined twins, joined at the waist, defying the odds of survival. They share everything, and they are everything to each other. They would never imagine being apart. For them, that would be the real tragedy. But something is happening to them. Something they hoped would never happen. And Grace doesn’t want to admit it. Not even to Tippi. How long can they hide from the truth - how long before they must face the most impossible choice of their lives?
Sarah likes to drink green tea and eat chocolate chip cookies when she writes! She encourages aspiring writers to read widely and to pick up a pen and write and keep writing.
This is Sarah’s fifth novel. Two of her previous novels, The Weight of Water and Apple and Rain, were shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her novels so far have been aimed at a young adult audience.
Sarah was a judge at the first The National Literacy Poetry Prize, held in 2015.
To find out more about Sarah visit her website http://www.sarahcrossan.com or follow her on Twitter: @SarahCrossan
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