A new YA novel from Anne Fine, former Children's Laureate and bestselling author of Madame Doubtfire and Flour Babies.
SHADES OF SCARLET is a deeply insightful, sharply funny book by bestselling author Anne Fine, about how growing up means coming to terms with your parents' lives being just as messy as your own...
When Mum gives her the notebook, Scarlet should be happy. It's beautiful, with its shiny scarlet cover and its blank pages full of promise. But Scarlet is absolutely NOT in the mood for a peace offering.Does Mum really think she can tear their family apart and expect Scarlet to be happy about it?Scarlet decides there's only one thing she can write in the notebook. The truth, about everything . . .
Compelling, entertaining, insightful and kind The Times' Children's Book of the Week
The perfect novel for young teens BookTrust
A brilliant as well as a timely novel Books for Keeps
A funny and heart-warming tale LoveReading
Anne Fine is a distinguished writer for both adults and children. Her novel Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize as well as Britain's most coveted award for children's literature, the Carnegie Medal. She won the Carnegie Medal again for Flour Babies, which also won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award. Her novel Madame Doubtfire was adapted into the phenomenally successful film Mrs Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams. Having written over fifty books for children of all ages, Anne Fine became Children's Laureate in 2001.
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