NEW RELEASE BOOK – MEDIA UPDATE – YOUNG ADULT: The Yellow Room by Jess Vallance
NEW RELEASE BOOK – MEDIA UPDATE
YOUNG ADULT: The Yellow Room by Jess Vallance
HotKey
October 2016
Paperback, $16.99
272 Pages
Young Adult/Metal Health/Relationships
If you receive a letter telling you your father has died, what do you do?
Anna’s father left when she was very young and Anna, now 16, is living with her ambitious, unemotional, scientist mother. Then she receives a letter from her father’s current girlfriend, Edie, with some shocking news: her father has died. Edie would like to meet Anna because she has something for her from her father. Anna’s friends think Edie is not to be trusted and that she should steer clear. But Anna is drawn to Edie: her warmth, her character, her ability to rustle up delicious meals, all of which it seems her own mother is seemingly incapable of… and the way she can tell Edie the secret that is buried inside her, that she cannot bring herseft to tell her mother or her best friends.
A taughtly told, compelling tale about mothers and their daughters – and the lengths that some will go to, to make their dreams come true.
I was a big reader. I could spend whole days absorbed in a book, whole weekends in the library or the park, completely oblivious to my surroundings. ‘Escapism’, I suppose they’d call it, but I never really liked that term much myself. I mean, who is it exactly who gets to decide which parts of your life are real and which parts are only allowed to count as an escape from that reality? I preferred to think that good books were my real life and all the other stuff – school, chores, all the rest of it – was just an interruption.
Jess Vallance works as a freelance writer specialising in educational materials and has written articles on everything from business accounting to embalming a body. Jess lives in Brighton. Her first novel for Hot Key Books was BIRDY.
Follow Jess at www.jessvallance.com or on Twitter: @JessVallance1
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