Storm

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The extraordinarily moving, funny and original new novel from the author of the rapturously acclaimed BLOOM.

“You were born raging, Frances Frida Ripley. That’s what happens when you’re born in a storm.”

Frances’s parents were not prepared for her birth: they had a blanket and an easel and some paint, but not anything useful, like a car or a phone. So it’s no wonder Frankie has always had a temper. She was born on a BEACH, in a STORM.

What Frances was not prepared for was dying in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town.

Waking up 100 years later, Frances finds a whole load of new things to be angry about. And that’s before the visitors start turning up, treating her home like it’s a tourist attraction. Which it is.

Only there are worse people out there than tourists… and they’re coming for Frankie.

Frankie is about to discover that there are things more important than herself – and that anger has its uses. Because when you have a storm inside you – sometimes the only thing to do is let it out…

Critics Review

u2018Nicola Skinner is a uniquely brilliant voice in children's books; clever, funny and insightful.u2019 Anna James, author ofu00a0Pages and Co.

u2018Hugely inventiveu2019 Independent

u2018Funny, moving and surprising, told with real wisdom and heartu2019 Bookseller

u2018Surprising and endearingu2019 Daily Mail

nPraise for BLOOM:n

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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