Furious Thing
Jenny Downham
Furious Thing
Jenny Downham
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English
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Description
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
Piercingly well-observed... a masterpiece of shame and desire
A painfully enthralling, fiercely feminist account of emotional abuse and appropriate rage
Powerful
Furiously brilliant
Breathtakingly good
A wonderful book brimming with empathy and justified anger
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.
Wise, gripping and skilfully told... It gives permission to rage when fury is warranted
Piercingly well-observed... a masterpiece of shame and desire
A painfully enthralling, fiercely feminist account of emotional abuse and appropriate rage
Powerful
Furiously brilliant
Breathtakingly good
A wonderful book brimming with empathy and justified anger
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.