Phyllida Shrimpton

This funny yet heartbreaking teen and YA novel movingly explores what happens when Lily dies in a car accident. The trouble is, Lily is really not sure at all if she wants to 'move on'... For fans of John Green and The Lovely Bones Lily wakes up one crisp Sunday morning on the side of the road. She has no idea how she got there. It is all very peaceful. and very beautiful. It is only when the police car, and then the ambulance arrive, and she sees her own body, that she realises that she is in fact ... dead. But what is she supposed do now? Lily has no option but to follow her body and see her family - her parents and her twin brother start falling apart. And then her twin brother Ben gives her a once in a deathtime opportunity - to use his own body for a while. But will Lily give Ben his body back? She is beginning to have a rather good time... A moving, startlingly funny yet achingly sad debut novel from a stunning new talent.

Sunflowers in February

Saffron is looking for family photos in the attic when she finds a secret that's been kept from her for ten years, a secret that blows apart everything she thought she knew about family. Furious with her father, she leaves home. But when Saffron's friends fail here it turns out she has nowhere to go. As bit by bit her life falls away, Saffron must uncover what's important to her -- but can she find a way to forgive her parents?

The Colour of Shadows

Shape of Happiness

Every Shade of Happy

A moving portrayal of a teenager coming to terms with a secret about her mother that her father decided to keep from her . . . was he right to do so? Saffron must work that out . . . Seventeen year old Saffron discovers a secret in the attic - a secret that changes both her past and her future... Having believed ten years ago that her mother had become ill and subsequently died, Saffron learns that her mother is in fact alive and well. Angry at the years of deceit from her father and step mother, she goes in search of the truth about her mother - and leaves home. Homeless and alone, Saffron has to deal with the mental turmoil and anger at her father as she processes the lies she has been told. And then Saffron comes face to face with the dangers of being a homeless teenage girl . . .

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