Full of love, humour and heartbreak, this beautifully crafted YA novella from the multi-award-winning author of Ketchup Clouds and My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece is a compassionate and distinctive tale of modern family life and its issues.

Dads leave home all the time. It's not that unusual, really. Leon's dad walked out. So did Mo's. But Archie's? Well, that's a different story - a story that Archie must keep secret at all cost. Archie knows he should accept Dad for who he is, so he hides his turmoil until he can stand it no longer. With nowhere else to turn, he finds himself at the railway track. The track has been calling to him, promising escape, release. The only problem is, it's been calling to someone else too...Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 13+

Full of love, humour and heartbreak, this beautifully crafted YA novella from the multi-award-winning author of Ketchup Clouds and My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece is a compassionate and distinctive tale of modern family life and its issues.

About the Author

Annabel Pitcher's novels My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Ketchup Clouds and Silence is Goldfish have won and been shortlisted for heaps of prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. Annabel had the idea for her first book while she was travelling the world and wrote it in notebooks all the way home. Now she is happiest with her husband and two young sons living in the middle of nowhere (Yorkshire, actually), walking her dog and creating her warm-hearted, complex and brilliantly original stories.

Reviews

"Delivers thrills and plenty of talking points without being in least patronising" - The Letterpress Project

"A dark, unsettling story and totally authentic in the way that it's told" - The Bookbag

"Full of love, humour and heartbreak ... Annabel Pitcher portrays Archie with real insight and readers will understand completely the agony he feels" - LoveReading4Kids

"Brilliant" - BookTrust

Awards
Short-listed for Coventry Inspiration Book Awards 2019. Long-listed for Southern Schools Book Awards 2018 and Grampian Children's Book Award 2019. Nominated for Carnegie Medal 2019.



Book Information
ISBN 9781781127285
Author Annabel Pitcher
Format Paperback
Page Count 152
Imprint Barrington Stoke Ltd
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Weight(grams) 600g
Dimensions(mm) 200mm * 146mm * 15mm