Awards

• Short-listed for YA Book Prize (UK).

Overview

Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 1896. Tirzah, Sophia and Polly are best friends who’ve left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. Polly is teaching in an orphanage. Sophia is looking for a rich husband at the London Season. And Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters, they share their hopes, their frustrations, their dramas ... and their romances. Can these three very different young women find happiness? 'An addictive, romantic epistolary novel' Guardian 'This immersive, uplifting book is an absolute delight' Irish Times 'Thrilling and cleverly constructed' Daily Mail 'A gorgeous, immersive book' Observer 'An unputdownable friendship story' Hilary McKay

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"""I loved this book. An unputdownable friendship story told in letters so vivid and immersive that I felt like joining in with the correspondence"" ""Nicholls' award-winning young adult novels conjure up the confusion and passion of adolescence — and never more so than in this thrilling and cleverly constructed story... Against a backdrop of feminism, Nicholls balances their contrasting characters with delightful wit and warmth"" * Daily Mail * ""The perfect novel for our anxiety-ridden times, with its thrilling plot, brave heroines and empowering message... This is simply a heavenly book that anyone 10+ will want to lose themselves in on cold, autumnal nights"" * The Bookseller, Book of the Month * ""Technically brilliant and consistently engaging... could well be [Sally Nicholls'] best yet"" * Books for Keeps * ""Immersive"" * Guardian *"

"""An addictive, romantic epistolary novel"" * Guardian * ""I loved this book. An unputdownable friendship story told in letters so vivid and immersive that I felt like joining in with the correspondence"" -- Hilary McKay ""Building on her previous historical fiction exploring the restrictions on women in society, the award-winning, always-excellent Sally Nicholls moves to the late Victorian era... This immersive, uplifting book is an absolute delight"" * The Irish Times * ""Nicholls' award-winning young adult novels conjure up the confusion and passion of adolescence — and never more so than in this thrilling and cleverly constructed story... Against a backdrop of feminism, Nicholls balances their contrasting characters with delightful wit and warmth"" * Daily Mail * ""A warm, gentle work with well-drawn characters and brisk pacing celebrating female friendship and independence"" * Kirkus *"

"""An addictive, romantic epistolary novel"" * Guardian * ""I loved this book. An unputdownable friendship story told in letters so vivid and immersive that I felt like joining in with the correspondence"" -- Hilary McKay ""Building on her previous historical fiction exploring the restrictions on women in society, the award-winning, always-excellent Sally Nicholls moves to the late Victorian era... This immersive, uplifting book is an absolute delight"" * The Irish Times * ""With great affection and sympathy, these winning heroines forge their own paths in this highly readable, tautly paced work"" -- starred review * Publishers Weekly * ""Nicholls' award-winning young adult novels conjure up the confusion and passion of adolescence — and never more so than in this thrilling and cleverly constructed story... Against a backdrop of feminism, Nicholls balances their contrasting characters with delightful wit and warmth"" * Daily Mail *"

Author Information

Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and two sons.

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