Patrice Lawrence Pair Award-winning author Pack by Patrice Lawrence (author)

When you look at the people you love, you see their faults and their beauty, all tangled up together. And that’s how these books are. Patrice Lawrence absolutely tells it like it is about the mixed-up lives of mixed-up teens. But she does it with an ineffable sweetness too. Marlon is meant to be the good kid. (Read: not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough.) So how’s he ended up being hunted in an urban gang’s turf war? Indigo’s dad killed her mum. What’s the chances she’ll grow up normal? But she tries. She really does. And now she’s met Bailey, with his luscious ginger afro. Could it be love?

• Nerve-jangling, heart-stopping YA fiction from a superb writer

• Orangeboy won the Waterstones Prize and the YA Book Prize

• Topical real-life themes mixed with rich psychological insights

• Powerful reads to challenge preconceptions and melt the hardest heart

“Lawrence deserves all the awards that were heaped on Orangeboy, and her latest book is every bit as good.” Crime Review

“Fresh and important… Patrice Lawrence is a hot name in publishing.” The Times