_______________ 'This poignant, realistic tale is about learning to love and taking responsibility, and how poems can tell the truth' - Sunday Times Book of the Week 'A story of the redeeming power of love. It's beautifully written and it made me cry but it also made me laugh' - The Bookbag _______________ SHORTLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL All the time Mum was away, Eleven long years, I saved up my hopes Like little pennies in a jar. Apple's mother disappeared years ago, leaving Apple with her nana and a lot of unanswered questions. But when she unexpectedly explodes back into Apple's life like a comet, homecoming is bittersweet. It's only when Apple meets someone more lost than she is that she begins to see things as they really are. This beautiful novel from multi-award-winning author Sarah Crossan explores family, friendship and reconciliation. It is a story about how messy, complicated and surprising love can be. _______________ Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation... Don't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Moonrise, One, Toffee, and The Weight of Water.

A stunning new package and branding for the incomparable, multi-award-winning, and Laureate na nOg, Sarah Crossan. Apple and Rain was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2015.

About the Author
Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London and New York, and now lives in Hertfordshire. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at the University of Cambridge. Sarah Crossan won the 2016 CILIP Medal, the YA Book Prize, the CBI Book of the Year Award and many other prizes for her novel One. Sarah is the current Laureate na nOg. sarahcrossan.com @SarahCrossan

Reviews
This poignant, realistic tale is about learning to love and taking responsibility, and how poems can tell the truth ... * Sunday Times Book of the Week *
A story of the redeeming power of love. It's beautifully written and it made me cry but it also made me laugh * The Bookbag *
Poignant, powerful, just perfect * Cathy Cassidy on THE WEIGHT OF WATER *
Succinct, with a gentle lyricism, the poems are telling about immigration, prejudice, self-delusion, families and first love, on the way to a life-changing conclusion * The Sunday Times - Children's Books of the Week on THE WEIGHT OF WATER *
Exquistely and touchingly written * Irish Times on THE WEIGHT OF WATER *



Book Information
ISBN 9781526606761
Author Sarah Crossan
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Bloomsbury YA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 302g