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Apple and Rain
- Author
- Sarah Crossan
- Narrator
- Sarah Crossan
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 15 September 2022
- Run Time
- 6 hours 14 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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'This poignant, realistic tale is about learning to love and taking responsibility, and how poems can tell the truth' – Sunday Times Book of the Week
'A story of the redeeming power of love. It's beautifully written and it made me cry but it also made me laugh' – The Bookbag
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL
All the time Mum was away,
Eleven long years,
I saved up my hopes
Like little pennies in a jar.
Apple's mother disappeared years ago, leaving Apple with her nana and a lot of unanswered questions. But when she unexpectedly explodes back into Apple's life like a comet, homecoming is bittersweet. It's only when Apple meets someone more lost than she is that she begins to see things as they really are.
This beautiful novel from multi-award-winning author Sarah Crossan explores family, friendship and reconciliation. It is a story about how messy, complicated and surprising love can be.
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Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation...
Don't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Moonrise, One, Toffee, and The Weight of Water.
Critics Review
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This poignant, realistic tale is about learning to love and taking responsibility, and how poems can tell the truth …
Sunday Times Book of the Week
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A story of the redeeming power of love. It's beautifully written and it made me cry but it also made me laugh
The Bookbag
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Poignant, powerful, just perfect
Cathy Cassidy on THE WEIGHT OF WATER
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Succinct, with a gentle lyricism, the poems are telling about immigration, prejudice, self-delusion, families and first love, on the way to a life-changing conclusion
The Sunday Times - Children's Books of the Week on THE WEIGHT OF WATER
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Exquistely and touchingly written
Irish Times on THE WEIGHT OF WATER
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Details
- Author
- Sarah Crossan
- Narrator
- Sarah Crossan
- Duration
- 6 hours 14 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 September 2022
- ISBN
- 9781526660084
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Apple and Rain written and read by Sarah Crossan._______________'This poignant, realistic tale is about learning to love and taking responsibility, and how poems can tell the truth' – Sunday Times Book of the Week'A story of the redeeming power of love. It's beautifully written and it made me cry but it also made me laugh' – The Bookbag_______________SHORTLISTED FOR THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDALAll the time Mum was away, Eleven long years, I saved up my hopes Like little pennies in a jar. Apple's mother disappeared years ago, leaving Apple with her nana and a lot of unanswered questions. But when she unexpectedly explodes back into Apple's life like a comet, homecoming is bittersweet. It's only when Apple meets someone more lost than she is that she begins to see things as they really are.This beautiful novel from multi-award-winning author Sarah Crossan explores family, friendship and reconciliation. It is a story about how messy, complicated and surprising love can be._______________Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation...Don't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Moonrise, One, Toffee, and The Weight of Water.
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