Lots of News!
So much news!
Lots of really exciting things have been happening to ‘An Island of Our Own’.
It has:
WON the Independent Booksellers Week Award
Been SHORTLISTED for the
Costa Book Award (children’s category)
Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize
Brilliant Book Award
Bolton Book Award
Calderdale Book of the Year
Been LONGLISTED for the
United Kingdom Literacy Association Book Award
and NOMINATED for the Carnegie Medal.
Phew!
It was also book of the week in the Sunday Times:
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/fiction/article1544164.ece
And reviewed in the Guardian:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/14/an-island-of-our-own-by-sally-nicholls-a-touching-treasure-hunt
The Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize judges called it:
A perfectly crafted book.
and said:
This is a joyful Treasure Island-style mystery for the Instagram generation. A loveable young pair don’t face pirates as they seek their late auntie’s buried hoard, but more contemporary devices – from crowdsourcing clues to metal detectors – winningly deployed in this funny and tender exploration of what makes a family.
The Costa Book Award judges said it was:
December 23, 2015 @ 9:19 am
Eve Edwards’ post reminds me to visit a Lyons tea-shop or coernr house. The name stands for all those tea-shop scenes from the first half of the twentieth century which I’d love to join. I’d watch Cassandra Mortmain eking out a cup of tea and praying for Stephen to rescue her; Laura and Alec from Brief Encounter laughing at their cellist and beginning to fall in love; and the Provincial Lady tucking into a lamb cutlet, having (again) pawned her great-aunt’s diamond ring.