La scrittura di Tabitha Suzuma approfondisce le complessità dell'adolescenza, esplorando profonde lotte psicologiche, traumi e difficili dinamiche familiari. La sua prosa è caratterizzata da una cruda onestà e da una profonda comprensione delle vulnerabilità intrinseche alla crescita. Suzuma intreccia magistralmente temi di identità, amore e perdita, esaminando coraggiosamente gli aspetti più oscuri della psiche umana. I suoi romanzi offrono letture avvincenti e spesso inquietanti che risuonano con profonde emozioni e stimolano una riflessione ponderata.
In his final year at the Royal College of Music, star pianist Flynn Laukonen has the world at his feet. But in all this he has forgotten the one person he would give his life for, and Flynn suddenly finds himself facing the biggest sacrifice of all.
Life as a student is good for Flynn. As one of the top pianists at the Royal College of Music, he has been put forward for an important concert, the opportunity of a lifetime. But beneath the surface, things are changing. On a good day, he feels full of energy and life, but on a bad day being alive is worse than being dead.
Sixteen-year-old Maya and 17-year-old Lochan tell, in their separate voices, of their confusion and longing as they fall in love with one another after years of functioning as parents to three younger siblings due to their alcoholic mother's neglect.
Raven is a deeply disturbed teenager, who, after witnessing the death of his mother, is placed in foster care. The Russells do their best to earn his trust, but only little Ella manages to get through to him. Meanwhile, at school, bullies are making his life a living hell. An unexpected companion comes in the form of Lotte, a classmate bored by her 'ordinary' friends. Together, they track down Raven's mum's killer, with the goal of exposing him to the police. But their carefully crafted plan goes dangerously wrong and suddenly nothing is as it seems. Everything is falling apart and, ultimately, there is only one, final way out.
The gripping new novel for teenagers from award-winning author, Tabitha Suzuma. Ideal for fans of Jodi Picoult and Jenny Downham. At seventeen, Matheo Walsh is Britain's most promising diving champion. He is wealthy, popular -- and there's Lola, the girlfriend of his dreams. But then there was that weekend. A weekend he cannot bring himself to remember. All he knows is that what happened has changed him. Matheo is faced with the most devastating choice of his life. Keep his secret, and put those closest to him in terrible danger. Or confess, and lose Lola for ever."
Twelve-year-old Parisian boy Louis Whittaker has a lot on his plate - his parents are locked in a custody battle over him and his brother and sister, Mum's always working late and Dad's rarely allowed to visit them. Something isn't right - Dad is acting strangely again: could it be he has not fully recovered from his mental breakdown?