Toffee

Author: Sarah Crossan

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  • : $16.99 NZD
  • : 9781526608147
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Gardners Books
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  • : December 2019
  • : 19.80 cmmm
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  • : June 2019
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Helen's Review

Sarah Crossan, the Irish Children's Laureate is so good! This novel about the relationship between a girl who leaves home because of a violent farther and an old woman with dementia, is tender, funny and sad and gorgeously written. Don't be put off by the verse - it reads so well.

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I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember.
Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there - and she mistakes Allison for an old friend from her past called Toffee.
Allison is used to hiding who she really is, and trying to be what other people want her to be. And so, Toffee is who she becomes. After all, it means she has a place to stay. There are worse places she could be. But as their bond grows, and Allison discovers how much Marla needs a real friend, she begins to ask herself - where is home? What is a family? And most importantly, who am I, really?

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The outstanding new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate na n g Sarah Crossan; poignant, thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores mental health and friendship while asking what it means to be a family.