Furious Thing by Jenny Downham

Furious Thing by Jenny Downham

Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award and Young Adult Book Prize. One of the Sunday Times' Best Children's Books of the Year. FURIOUS THING roars with justifiable anger at an unfair world, as one girl fights to claim back the spaces that belong to her and battles to be heard...

Wise, gripping and skilfully told.. It gives permission to rage when fury is warranted * Sunday Times' Children's Book of the Week *
Piercingly well-observed... a masterpiece of shame and desire * Financial Times *
A painfully enthralling, fiercely feminist account of emotional abuse and appropriate rage * Guardian *
Powerful * Observer *
Furiously brilliant * Holly Bourne *
Breathtakingly good * Lisa Williamson *
A wonderful book brimming with empathy and justified anger * Patrice Lawrence *

Jenny Downham trained as an actor and worked in community theatre for many years, using improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, youth clubs, housing estates, anywhere that theatre rarely existed - she spent many years putting herself in imaginary situations and playing all sorts of people she would never normally be cast as. It was a perfect apprenticeship for writing. Her first novel, Before I Die, is an international bestseller. It won the Branford Boase Award for most promising debut, the Australian Silver Inky Award for best international novel, was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was made into the blockbuster film, Now Is Good. Jenny's second book, You Against Me, won the inaugural Waterstones Teenage Book Prize, and her third novel, Unbecoming, was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and won the Stonewall Honor Award from the American Library Association. Jenny lives in London. She hopes that this story encourages more girls to make a noise so that their voices can be heard.

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ISBN 13	9781788451260
ISBN 10	1788451260
Title	Furious Thing
Author	Jenny Downham
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	David Fickling Books
Year published	2021-02-04
Number of pages	378
Prizes	Short-listed for Costa Children's Book Award 2020, Short-listed for YA Book Prize 2020, Long-listed for UKLA Book Awards 2021
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.