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The Weight of Water
- Author
- Sarah Crossan
- Narrator
- Izzy Meikle-Small
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 26 February 2026
- Run Time
- 2 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Body and health, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying, violence, abuse and peer pressure, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage: Poetry / poems, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories, Children’s / Teenage social topics: Migration / refugees
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What to expect
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'Poignant, powerful, just perfect' - Cathy Cassidy
'This poetic novel is sheer perfection ... I loved it' - Irish Examiner
'A compellingly beautiful, utterly seductive debut novel … Do not miss it' - The Scotsman
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Sarah Crossan's exquisite debut novel explores first love, friendship and quiet courage. It will leave you sad, happy and wanting more.
Sometimes I want to tear off my clothes
And show them I'm the same
Underneath –
Maybe better.
Life is lonely for Kasienka. She misses her old home in Poland, her mother's heart is breaking, and at her new English school friends are scarce. But when someone new swims into her life, Kasienka learns that there is more than one way to stay afloat.
This stunning novel from Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan explores how to pick up the pieces when everything you know is turned on its head and you have to start all over again.
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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, Apple and Rain, and Toffee.
Critics Review
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Poignant, powerful, just perfect
Cathy Cassidy
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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
Sunday Times ‘Book of the Week’
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This poetic novel is sheer perfection - for adults as well as for teenagers. Being in Kasienka's head, the reader gains a new understanding of how alienation feels. I loved it
Irish Examiner
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This is a unique and compelling read with sharp observations of human behaviour as Kasienka goes on a journey of discovery, encountering bullying and first love while trying to fit into a new life. Written in a unique poetic style that is at times humorous and often deeply moving
The Bookseller, ‘Bookseller’s Choice’
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You’ve entered the young Polish girl’s voice with a heartfelt conviction. I felt like I was watching a movie of her life in present time and at the same sharing in what’s happening inside her head. What I especially like is that nothing is overstated, but there are so many pregnant issues there – prejudice, migration, language bias – but what’s so disarming and charming is the way the girl reveals her inner self with a poetic and resonant simplicity
John Agard
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Details
- Author
- Sarah Crossan
- Narrator
- Izzy Meikle-Small
- Duration
- 2 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 February 2026
- ISBN
- 9781037203008
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Stories in verse, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Body and health, Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s / Teenage: Social issues / topics, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying, violence, abuse and peer pressure, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories, Children’s / Teenage: Poetry / poems, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories, Children’s / Teenage social topics: Migration / refugees
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan, read by Izzy Meikle-Small_______________'Poignant, powerful, just perfect' - Cathy Cassidy'This poetic novel is sheer perfection ... I loved it' - Irish Examiner'A compellingly beautiful, utterly seductive debut novel … Do not miss it' - The Scotsman_______________Sarah Crossan's exquisite debut novel explores first love, friendship and quiet courage. It will leave you sad, happy and wanting more.Sometimes I want to tear off my clothesAnd show them I'm the sameUnderneath –Maybe better.Life is lonely for Kasienka. She misses her old home in Poland, her mother's heart is breaking, and at her new English school friends are scarce. But when someone new swims into her life, Kasienka learns that there is more than one way to stay afloat.This stunning novel from Carnegie Medal winner Sarah Crossan explores how to pick up the pieces when everything you know is turned on its head and you have to start all over again._______________Experience every emotion with the finest verse novelist of our generation...Don't miss Sarah Crossan's other irresistibly page-turning books Moonrise, One, Apple and Rain, and Toffee.
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