Room Empty
By (Author) Sarah Mussi
Oneworld Publications
Rock the Boat
1st June 2017
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction and true stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Family and home stories
Coping with / advice about eating disorders
Rehabilitation
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories
Childrens / Teenage personal and social topics: Body and health
823.92
Paperback
304
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 22mm
Dani is ravaged by anorexia and hasnt eaten for days. Fletcher is fighting to stay off the streets and to stay off drugs. Will their attraction to each other save or destroy them Both patients at the Daisy Bank Rehab Centre, Fletcher wants to help Dani find out about the empty room at the heart of her pain: What happened to Dani in that room when she was four Whose is the dead body that lies across the door Why wont her mind let her remember As Dani and Fletcher begin to learn how to love, Sarah Mussi weaves an intoxicating story of pain, fear and redemption.
Sarah Mussi lives in Brixton in South London. She has won the Irish Writers Children's Book Award and the BBUK Award for contemporary YA fiction. She has been nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and has been shortlisted for the Banford Boase award and Lewisham Book Award, amongst others. Apart from writing, Sarah teaches English in a South London secondary school and also travels regularly to Ghana.