Sweet Erin

Have you ever trodden on a snail and watched it lie there on the pavement, its shell all cracked to pieces and its body oozing and unmoving, waiting to die? Well, I’m that snail. I mean, I’m not actually a snail, I’m a girl, and I’m not literally dying, although that’s what it feels like, you know, on the inside.

Erin is struggling. There are problems at school, and at home her work-obsessed parents rarely seem to notice her at all. Then an extraordinary app introduces Erin to a girl named Carys and the pair begin an inexplicable – in fact utterly impossible – friendship. While both girls are struggling to face their own demons, Carys makes an astonishing announcement which brings a new dimension to the girls’ already unique friendship. Will Carys help Erin find the fresh start she desperately needs, and can Erin help Carys restore her crumbling relationship with her father? Sweet Erin is Sian Turner’s fifth novel in the genre of magical realism. It’s about hopelessness and hope, endings and new beginnings and about enemies, friends and family; a book for anyone who has ever been eleven years old.
"This is an author who knows how to grab her audience and hold them there until the very last. With a fine array of characters – all so different and yet so ordinary, this is a very cleverly written novel." (GraceJReviewLady)