Flying for Frankie

Almost everything I write is going to be embarrassing, but I've got to do something. I have no choice...so as well as telling Frankie's story here I'm checking my memory, that I've got everything right. The friendship. Our secrets. The things we shared. The extraordinary way it ended. And the flying. That most of all...A heart-rending and brave novel about two girls learning to live life.

This is the story of Frankie and Charis; of how two quite different girls became firm friends and the secrets they shared. And it's the story of how when Frankie became ill, Charis decided to do something to celebrate her life - while she's still alive. Charis wants to do something impossibly difficult to celebrate what Frankie means to her, and make her proud. The trouble is that Frankie's always been fearless and up for anything, wheras Charis is a wimp.

A topical, heart-rending new novel from award-winning writer Pauline Fisk.

'Fisk has an effortless understanding of what it feels like to be a child.' Kate Kellaway, Observer

'Pauline Fisk's novel is really nicely and simply written, quite moving...I've received at least half a dozen similar themed books over the past year and I like this one more than the others because of its simplicity, thought the ending was great, and will keep an eye out for Pauline, who has a very nice understated style.' - Meg Rosoff