Sarah Crossan

Sarah Crossan is an award-winning Irish author and poet whose work for young adults is celebrated for its emotional power, formal innovation, and fearless engagement with difficult subjects. Her novel Apple and Rain is a moving, beautifully written story about a teenage girl whose life is disrupted when the mother who abandoned her years ago suddenly returns, forcing her to confront questions of trust, forgiveness, and what it really means to be a family. Crossan's work is distinguished by her use of verse novels, a form she has made her own in contemporary young adult fiction, using spare, poetic language to create narratives of extraordinary emotional intensity and beauty. Her novel One, about conjoined twins facing the possibility of separation, won the Carnegie Medal, and her other works, including Breathe, Moonrise, and Here Is the Beehive, have earned numerous awards and critical acclaim. Crossan's writing treats her young readers with complete respect, trusting them to engage with complex emotions and situations while providing the linguistic beauty and narrative craft needed to make those engagements meaningful rather than merely difficult. Though Apple and Rain is written in prose rather than verse, it carries the same emotional precision and literary quality that characterise all her work. Apple and Rain is available as an audiobook, offering listeners a poignant, beautifully narrated story of family, forgiveness, and finding your voice.