Storm

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The extraordinarily moving, funny and original new novel from the author of the rapturously acclaimed BLOOM.
You were born raging, Frances Frida Ripley. Thats what happens when youre born in a storm.

Francess parents were not prepared for her birth: they had a blanket and an easel and some paint, but not anything useful, like a car or a phone. So its no wonder Frankie has always had a temper. She was born on a BEACH, in a STORM.

What Frances was not prepared for was dying in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town.

Waking up 100 years later, Frances finds a whole load of new things to be angry about. And thats before the visitors start turning up, treating her home like its a tourist attraction. Which it is.

Only there are worse people out there than tourists and theyre coming for Frankie.

Frankie is about to discover that there are things more important than herself and that anger has its uses. Because when you have a storm inside you sometimes the only thing to do is let it out

Reviews

Nicola Skinner is a uniquely brilliant voice in children's books; clever, funny and insightful. Anna James, author ofPages and Co.

Hugely inventive Independent

Funny, moving and surprising, told with real wisdom and heart Bookseller

Surprising and endearing Daily Mail

Praise for BLOOM:

A cracking debut fresh and fun Times Childrens Book of the Week

Delightful Humorous, original Amanda Craig, New Statesman

A gorgeous debut assured, funny, compelling Guardian

Original, surprising and wonderfully surreal The Bookseller

Author Bio

Nicola Skinner worked as a copywriter and journalist before turning to novels. BLOOM is her first book for children. Flavia Sorrentino lives and works as a freelance illustrator in Rome, where she grew up, and which inspires her each day to seek new ways of communication and expression. Her work has taken her across the globe, from France to America and beyond.