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World, ex New Zealand

Marketing Information

Shortlisted for the Copyright Licensing NZ Award for Young Adult Fiction and Best First Book in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2018

Reviews

A tremendous debut novel, both delicate and muscular, artful and honest. It’s changed the way I attend to those I teach. I cannot give it higher praise than that. – Bernard Beckett

The novel is explicitly described as semiautobiographical in its treatment of mental health, but it is much more than a case study. It’s a sensitively told, all too plausible tale that even provides us with the ultimate reader treat – a surprise ending that is also satisfying. - Paul Little

This novel is a striking chronicle of a young person watching the wall between himself and the world grow ever taller, and the small moments of brightness that reach him through the gaps. – Ashleigh Young

Author Biography

Erin Donohue was just 21 when this was published - When I wrote this novel, it was a way to write of my experience with mental illness and the horrors of high school, without writing myself into it. It allowed distance between me and my story and, at that point, that’s what I needed