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Being Toffee
Contributor(s): Crossan, Sarah (Author)
ISBN: 1547603291     ISBN-13: 9781547603299
Publisher: Bloomsbury YA
OUR PRICE:   $16.19  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: July 2020
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Runaways
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Physical & Emotional Abuse (see Also Social Themes - Sexual
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Mental Illness
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2020014880
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (1.15 lbs) 416 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

I am not who I say I am,
and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.


I am a girl trying to forget.
She is a woman trying to remember.

Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there - and she mistakes Allison for an old friend from her past named Toffee.

Allison is used to hiding who she really is, and trying to be what other people want her to be. And so, Toffee is who she becomes. After all, it means she has a place to stay. There are worse places she could be.

But as their bond grows, and Allison discovers how much Marla needs a real friend, she begins to ask herself - where is home? What is a family? And most importantly, who is she, really?


Contributor Bio(s): Crossan, Sarah: - Sarah Crossan is originally from Dublin. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at Cambridge University and has been working to promote creative writing in schools since. She taught English at a small private school near New York until she became a full time writer. She completed her Masters in creative writing at the University of Warwick in 2003 and in 2010 received an Edward Albee Fellowship for writing. Sarah lives in Hertfordshire with her husband and their daughter.