Let the Light In

Leah and Charlie are handling their family's loss in very different ways. Their choices push them down dangerous and perilous paths which eventually collide, sending shockwaves through their community. This astounding, compulsive novel explores love, power, money, art and asks: what matters most in the end?

About the Authors

Jenny Downham's first novel, Before I Die, is an international bestseller. It won the Branford Boase Award, 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. Her fourth novel, Furious Thing, was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and the Costa Book Awards.

Louis Hill is a writer and actor. As an actor, his credits include a wide variety of stage, screen and voiceover work. As a writer, he has written a number of plays and short films including his one-man show, Love & Tigers, which opened to sell out audiences and 5-star reviews for a limited run at the Hen and Chickens theatre. His short stories have been featured in a number of publications and have placed in several competitions. Let the Light In is his debut novel.