Bloom
- Author Nicola Skinner
- Narrator Lauren Chandler
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 4 April 2019
- Run Time 6 hours
- Format x-book®
- Genre Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Fantasy.
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What to expect
Sorrel Fallowfield is so good at being good that teachers come to her when they need help remembering the school rules – and there are LOTS.
Luckily, Sorrel doesn’t have any trouble following them, until the day she discovers a faded packet of Surprising Seeds buried under a tree in her backyard.
Now she’s hearing voices, seeing things, experiencing an almost unstoppable urge to plant the Seeds in some very unusual places… and completely failing to win her school’s competition to find The Most Obedient Child of the School.
And all that’s before flowers start growing out of her head…
Critics Review
u2018Nicola Skinner is a uniquely brilliant voice in children's books; clever, funny and insightful.u2019 Anna James, author ofu00a0Pages and Co.
u2018A hilarious, beautiful booku2026 a blooming marvellous readu2019 Onjali Q. Rauf, author of The Boy at the Back of the Class
u2018A riotous, original and timely reminder that sometimes rules are made to be broken.u2019 Guardian Books of the Year 2019
u2018A cracking debutu2026 fresh and funu2019 Times Childrenu2019s Book of the Week
u2018Delightfulu2026 Humorous, originalu2026u2019 Amanda Craig, New Statesman
u2018A gorgeous debutu2026 assured, funny, compellingu2019 Guardian
u2018Original, surprising and wonderfully surrealu2019 The Bookseller
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