Introducing: I Will Crash

That's right, I have written another novel

It was a peace offering, I knew that

you don't appear on someone's doorstep uninvited, saying Alright
unless you want to make amends

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I'm so thrilled that my second novel will be out on 4 July. I have been working on I Will Crash since soon after I finished my first novel, little scratch, in early 2019. The writing of it has been a creative discovery for me. It feels surreal -- after a decent amount of time spent alone in the writing, working the novel out, discovering Rosa’s story and the best way to tell it -- to be so close to sending it out into the world. Boy am I ready.

Faber and designer Sophie Harris have come up with a gorgeous package for the book. This is Faber’s blurb for it:

It's been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke. Six years since they last fought. Six years since she gave up on the idea of having a brother.

She's spent that time carefully not thinking about him. Not remembering their childhood. Not mentioning those stories, even to the people she loves.

Now the distance she had so carefully put between them has collapsed. Can she find a way to make peace - to forgive, to be forgiven - when the past she's worked so hard to contain threatens to spill over into the present?

From the acclaimed author of little scratch, this is a moving, powerfully honest novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive.

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You can preorder a copy here. If you send me proof that you have done so, I’ll very happily post you a signed bookplate for the front (UK only).

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