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Sarah is YA's most unique and exceptional talents. She is the unrivalled writer of the free verse novel in the UK. Her profile continues to build throughout the world. She was the Laureate na nÓg from 2018­-2020. Sarah won the CILIP Carnegie Medal in 2016 for her heart-wrenching novel One, having been shortlisted for both the stunning Apple and Rain and The Weight of Water. One also won the CBI Book of the Year Award, the YA Book Prize and the CliPPA Poetry Award. Moonrise was shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Awards 2017, the YA Book Prize 2018, the CBI Book of the Year award 2018 and the CLiPPA award 2018. A stellar voice, combined with the ability to make difficult subjects accessible; Sarah writes prize-winning books that are irresistibly page-turning Bold, brave and beautiful, Sarah's books have enormous crossover appeal. Her first adult book Here is the Beehive published in August 2020. Perfect for anyone who enjoys thought-provoking YA from the likes of Malorie Blackman, David Almond and Patrick Ness Sarah has a unique talent for asking big questions but allowing her readers to find their own answers – she is a big hit for teachers and librarians!

Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London and New York, and now lives in East Sussex. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at the University of Cambridge. Sarah was the Laureate na nÓg (Ireland’s Children’s Literature Laureate) from 2018–2020.

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‘A beautiful, perfect, moving read’ – Cecelia Ahern, author of PS, I Love You

The outstanding novel from the Carnegie Medal-winning, former Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan; thought-provoking and moving, it explores love and family during The Great Hunger.

Ireland, 1846. Nell is working as a scullery maid in the kitchen of the Big House. Once she loved school and books and dreaming. But there's not much choice of work when the land grows food that rots in the earth. Now she is scrubbing, peeling, washing, sweeping for Sir Philip Wicken, the man who owns her home, her family's land, their crops, everything. His dogs are always well fed, even as famine sets in.

Upstairs in the Big House, where Nell is forbidden to enter, is Johnny Browning, newly arrived from England: the young nephew who will one day inherit it all. And as hunger and disease run rampant all around them, a spark of life and hope catches light when Nell and Johnny find each other.

This is a love story, and the story of a people being torn apart. This is a powerful and unforgettable novel from the phenomenally talented Sarah Crossan.

‘A beautifully written, tightly observed novel’ - The Times

'Unmissable' - Daily Mail

‘Irresistibly emotive’ – The Sunday Times

‘Thrums with longing, beauty, loss and strength’ – Katya Balen, author of October, October

The outstanding novel from the multi-award-winning and former Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan; thought-provoking and incredibly moving, it explores love and family during The Great Hunger One of our finest novelists. Where the Heart Should Be is a thing of beauty. Sarah Crossan’s writing is powerful and necessary A tour de force from Sarah Crossan Where the Heart Should Be thrums with longing, beauty, loss and strength. A beautifully written, tightly observed novel... completely absorbing. With tenderness and unexpected humour, this story is irresistibly emotive as events unfold with almost unbearable tension, mitigated only by the promise at the beginning that true love wins Outstanding... Crossan's economy of words is no barrier to intense emotional impact in this powerhouse of a novel A beautiful, perfect, moving read Mesmerising, beautiful and full of rage Unmissable Terrific on every level PRAISE FOR TOFFEE: "Utterly Sublime", - Cecelia Ahern, "Impossible not to read it in a single gulp" - The Times, "Undoubtedly one of the best books of the year" - Irish Times, "Compelling and beautifully wrought" - The Sunday Times, "A book that changes its reader for the better" - The Guardian, "One of our most original writers" - John Boyne PRAISE FOR ONE: "The best book I've read in years. It's a spectacular testament to love. It blows your head back" - Katherine Rundell