2024, Cambridge, England Billy's got problems. A Levels, a mum who checked out of parenting a while ago, and then... there's what Billy's done to Cass, her person. Some secrets are too toxic to keep, but there's no way Billy can let this one loose. 1974, Famagusta, Cyprus Anna's a good ex-pat girl, focused on her A Levels, dreaming of studying at Cambridge, and definitely not looking for the love of her life. But then love does come, closely followed by war, and Anna's carefully crafted world is blown apart. Anna and Billy are two girls living decades apart, both searching for who they are and who they could be. When a diary connects them, it tells more than just a life story. It reveals a legacy of war, with consequences that could devastate two generations. AGES: 14 plus AUTHOR: A former broadcast journalist and special adviser to the Prime Minister (not this one), since leaving politics Joanna has written more than 90 books for children and adults, including the UK bestselling The Worst Class in the World series, the Flying Fergus series with Sir Chris Hoy, and the Carnegie-nominated Joe All Alone, No Man's Land and Calamity of Mannerings. She has been a World Book Day author, a Blue Peter book of the month and Radio 4 and the i magazine Book of the Year, won the Fantastic Book Award and the Highland Book Prize, and been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, Queen of Teen and the Big Book Awards among many others, and is published across multiple territories. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is a Senior Lecturer in the subject at University of Bristol, as well as teaching for the Arvon Foundation.
