The Edge of Me - Softcover

Brittan, Jane; Hankin, Mike John

3.65

72 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0993233406 ISBN 13: 9780993233401

Publisher: BLOWFISH BOOKS LTD, 2015

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Carnegie 2016 nominated: The Edge of Me is a coming of age novel with teeth: a gripping story of first love, of betrayal, secrets and lies, Young Adult fiction that is thrilling, immersive and totally unpredictable. Sanda is 16. Her parents escaped to London after the Bosnian War. One day she comes home to find them gone without a trace. Before she has time to figure out what’s happened, she’s kidnapped and taken across Europe into Serbia where she’s held prisoner. It’s here that she comes face to face with the brutal truth about what her parents really did in the war and where she learns that everything she’s ever been told, is a lie.

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'The Edge of Me is an exciting tale of a young woman’s quest for truth and love. It examines the tragedy of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and describes in compelling detail the brutality of contemporary people-trafficking.

Readers will be drawn to the central character, a lively, sensitive and resilient teenager, and at the same time outraged by a persuasive account of cruelty that was perpetrated in Europe less than a generation ago – cruelty with which survivors continue to struggle today.' *Kathryne Bomberger*, Director-General, ICMP International Commission on Missing Persons. Sarajevo

About the Author:

Jane Brittan has written four YA novels and is working on a fifth. She’s worked in further and higher education for the last seventeen years. She started at the London College of Fashion, and now works at the London College of Communication, at Kingston University, and at Greenwich teaching writing both academic and creative. She has lots of fun working with and inspiring animation undergraduates on their story design, and has also worked in schools. She has a degree in English and an MA in Creative Writing from London Birkbeck.

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