Unbecoming - Softcover

Downham, Jenny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910989029 ISBN 13: 9781910989029

Publisher: David Fickling Books, 2016

Synopsis

Katie's life is falling apart: her mum's controlling, her dad's run off, she's in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal and now her estranged grandmother's turned up on the doorstep and Katie's expected to take care of her. Soon Katie discovers she's not the only one in her family hiding the truth. If she's going to get her life back together, she's going to have to expose everyone's deepest secrets - including her own.

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Review

Praise for Unbecoming

A Stonewall Honor Book

Entertainment Weekly Must List pick

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

A Bookpage Best Teen Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize

Shortlisted for The People's Book Prize

An iBooks Best Book of the Month pick

"This beautiful rumination on the relationships between mothers and daughters should be on every woman's reading list." --Buzzfeed

"[A] beautiful, funny, and heart-breaking story of family and life itself." --Bustle

* "Her prose gets right down inside human fragility, tenderness, fury, gusto, and strength -- leaving sweet, sharp images that are impossible to forget. Exceptional." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

* "Downham's third novel offers implicit commentary on the historical and contemporary constraints on young women's lives and their freedom to love with abandon." --Horn Book, starred review

* "Extraordinary." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

* "A strong choice for thoughtful readers." --School Library Journal, starred review

"Fluid, perfectly paced, and can be easily read in one sitting. This is a heartfelt book that sensitively and honestly reveals family issues, and it's one that teens won't want to miss." --Bookpage, Teen Top Pick

"This life-affirming story about a complicated family . . . is stunningly told." --The Times (UK), Children's Book of the Week

"A beautifully drawn portrait . . . hugely ambitious in its interwoven examination of sexual identity, family secrets, torn loyalties, and the life-affirming power of breaking away from suffocating conventions." --Daily Mail (UK)

"A rich and complex coming of age story." --The Guardian (UK)

"Compassionate, uncliched and involving." --Sunday Times (UK)

"Rich in detail and tone." --Telegraph (UK)

Praise for Before I Die

*"Lucid language makes a painful journey bearable, beautiful and transcendent."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review

*"The eloquent dying teen can seem a staple of the YA novel, but this British debut completely breaks the mold. Downham holds nothing back in her wrenching and exceptionally vibrant story."--Publisher's Weekly, starred review

"In luminous prose that rings completely true, Downham earns every tear she wrings from her readers. I trust there will be many of them--many readers, and of course, many tears. A-"--Entertainment Weekly

About the Author

Jenny Downham trained as anactor and worked in alternative theatre before starting to write.Her first book, Before I Die, is an international bestseller. It won the Branford Boase Award, the Australian Silver Inky Award for best international novel, and was short-listed for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Her second novel, You Against Me, won the Waterstones Teen Fiction Prize. Jenny lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: David Fickling Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1910989029
• ISBN 13: 9781910989029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448