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A Telegraph best new children's book
A Daily Mail book of the year
London, September 1940. Deep in the Underground, taking shelter from the bombs, four teenagers meet.
Without the Blitz, they never would have met.
Fourteen-year-old Ella walks with a limp. Some days, she feels like a laughing stock. Other days, like no one sees her at all. Quinn is fifteen, fancy and fearless. She’s run away from home with a bag of family jewels and big ideas about changing the world. Jack is sixteen and doesn’t care about anything anymore – he’s already lost it all. And then there’s Sebastian, Quinn’s older brother. He used to be her hero. Until he became a traitor
A coming-of-age historical novel for teens from internationally bestselling children's author, Anna Woltz.
Anna Woltz
Anna Woltz is an internationally bestselling children's author based in the Netherlands. She has written twenty-six books for young readers, which have been translated into twenty-four languages and won numerous prizes. My Especially Weird Week with Tess, which Rock the Boat will publish in 2023, was made into an award-winning film titled My Extraordinary Summer with Tess. It has been translated into thirteen languages.
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