A heart-wrenching exploration of grief from a bestselling YA author, set in a landscape corrupted by fame and the scrutiny that comes from living in the shadow of a star.
"Raw and brilliant." Holly Bourne
“A powerful, devastating exploration of grief and loss and fame.” Louise O'Neill
"An important, timely, and flat-out beautiful book about family, grief, and the lies and truths that both bind and unravel us." Kathleen Glasgow
To the world, Lizzie Beck is a superstar: famous, talented and beloved.
To Emmy, she is simply Beth: her brilliant older sister, her idol.
But then Beth takes her own life, and all the light in the world disappears.
Now Emmy is lost. Amidst the media storm and overwhelming public grief, she must fight to save her own memories of her sister – and find out who she is without her.
This is Book 112 in the The Norendy Tales Series. See all The Norendy Tales books here.
Sara Barnard lives in Brighton and does all her best writing on trains. She loves books, book people and book things. She has been writing ever since she was too small to reach the 'on' switch on the family's Amstrad computer. She gets her love of words from her dad, who made sure she always had books to read and introduced her to the wonders of second-
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