Catch Me When You Fall
"Seventeen-year-old Alex Byrd is about to have the worst day of her life, and the best. A routine blood test that will reveal her leukaemia has returned, but she also meets Jamie Orange"--Publisher information.
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| ISBN |
9780143770930 |
| Barcode |
9780143770930 |
| Published |
2 January 2018 by Penguin |
| Format |
Paperback |
| Alternate Format(s) |
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| Author(s) |
By Merriman, Eileen |
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Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
Children |
| Reading Age |
13+ years |
| NBS Text |
Children's Fiction |
| ONIX Text |
Children/juvenile |
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| Dewey Code |
823.3 |
| Catalogue Code |
777327 |
Description of this Book
A moving novel about learning to find happiness in the face of uncertainty and discovering a love that transcends the boundary between life and death.Seventeen-year-old Alex Byrd is about to have the worst day of her life, and the best. A routine blood test that will reveal her leukaemia has returned, but she also meets Jamie Orange. Some people believe in love at first sight, and some don't.I believe in love in four days.I believe in falling.Both teenagers have big dreams, but also big obstacles to overcome.'Promise me you won't try to die,' I said. 'Ever.''Promise me you won't either,' he countered.'It's not really something I can control.'
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Author's Bio
Eileen Merriman works full-time as a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital. Her writing has appeared in a number of national and international journals and anthologies, including Smokelong Quarterly, The Island Review, Literary Orphans, the Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2015, the Sunday Star-Times, F(r)iction, takahe, Headland and Flash Frontier. Her first novel was Pieces of You, with reviewers calling it 'compulsively readable' and 'compelling, challenging, and heartbreaking'. It was a 2018 Storylines Notable Book and, along with her second novel, it was shortlisted for the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults.Her other awards include second in the 2015 Bath Flash Fiction Award, commended in the 2015 Bath Short Story Competition, third in the 2014 & 2015 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Awards, and first place in the 2015 Graeme Lay Short Story Competition.
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