When you look at the people you love, you see their faults & their beauty, all tangled up together. & that’s how these books are. Patrice Lawrence absolutely tells it like it is about the mixed-up lives of mixed-up teens. But she does it with an ineffable sweetness too. Marlon is meant to be the good kid. (Read: not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough.) So how’s he ended up being hunted in an urban gang’s turf war? Indigo’s dad killed her mum. She knows life isn’t happily ever after. But now she’s met Bailey. Could it be love? Rose has escaped from a commune to the brave new world of Hackney. But freedom can be risky, when you have no idea how it works… Nerve-jangling, heart-stopping YA fiction from a superb writer Orangeboy won the Waterstones Prize & the YA Book Prize Topical real-life themes mixed with rich psychological insights Powerful reads to challenge preconceptions & melt the hardest heart“ Lawrence deserves all the awards that were heaped on Orangeboy.” Crime Review “ Fresh & important… Patrice Lawrence is a hot name in publishing.” The Times