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WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL 2016
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'Broke my heart and mended it' - Cecilia Ahern
'It will shake up preconceptions and move readers to tears' - Sunday Times Book of the Week
'Truly remarkable' - Irish Times
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WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL
WINNER OF THE CBI BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD
WINNER OF THE CLIPPA POETRY AWARD
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Here we are.
And we are living.
Isn't that amazing?
How we manage to be here at all.
Grace and Tippi don't like being stared and sneered at, but they're used to it. They're conjoined twins - united in blood and bone.
What they want is to be looked at in turn, like they truly are two people. They want real friends. And what about love?
But a heart-wrenching decision lies ahead for Tippi and Grace. One that could change their lives more than they ever asked for...
This moving and beautifully crafted novel about identity, sisterhood and love ultimately asks one question: what does it mean to want and have a soulmate?
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Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation...
Don't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Moonrise, Toffee, Apple and Rain, and The Weight of Water.
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Grace and Tippi are 16-year-old conjoined twins attending private school after only being homeschooled. With an alcoholic and unemployed father, an anorexic sister, and a mother frantically trying to hold her family together, the girls cling to new friends Yasmeen and Jon, two outcasts who defend the girls and treat them as equals. Just when Grace falls for Jon despite Tippi's warning "We can never ever fall in love" the girls learn that an illness in one jeopardizes both. Facing financial hardship, they are asked to make a difficult decision that carries enormous consequences. Crossan's free-verse deftly conveys the twins' heightened emotions through repetition, creative spacing, and lyrical similes ("Her breath is as delicate as lace"). Writing mainly from Grace's perspective, Crossan (The Weight of Water) interjects the voices of friends and family, offering a glimpse of the difficulties conjoined twins and their loved ones' face. In asking important questions about how bodies shape identity, Crossan's novel achieves a striking balance between sentimentality and sisterly devotion. Ages 13 up.
