The Edge of Me - Couverture souple

Carnegie 2016 nominated: The Edge of Me is a coming of age novel with teeth: a gripping story of first love, of betrayal, secrets and lies, Young Adult fiction that is thrilling, immersive and totally unpredictable. Sanda is 16. Her parents escaped to London after the Bosnian War. One day she comes home to find them gone without a trace. Before she has time to figure out what’s happened, she’s kidnapped and taken across Europe into Serbia where she’s held prisoner. It’s here that she comes face to face with the brutal truth about what her parents really did in the war and where she learns that everything she’s ever been told, is a lie.

Jane Brittan has written four YA novels and is working on a fifth. She’s worked in further and higher education for the last seventeen years. She started at the London College of Fashion, and now works at the London College of Communication, at Kingston University, and at Greenwich teaching writing both academic and creative. She has lots of fun working with and inspiring animation undergraduates on their story design, and has also worked in schools. She has a degree in English and an MA in Creative Writing from London Birkbeck.