Unbecoming

By: Jenny Downham

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Paperback | 1 September 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Katie's life is falling apart: her mum's controlling, her dad's run off, she's in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal and now her estranged grandmother's turned up on the doorstep and Katie's expected to take care of her. Soon Katie discovers she's not the only one in her family hiding the truth. If she's going to get her life back together, she's going to have to expose everyone's deepest secrets - including her own.

About the Author

Jenny Downham trained as anactor and worked in alternative theatre before starting to write.Her first book, Before I Die, is an international bestseller. It won the Branford Boase Award, the Australian Silver Inky Award for best international novel, and was short-listed for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Her second novel, You Against Me, won the Waterstones Teen Fiction Prize. Jenny lives in London.

Industry Reviews

This life-affirming story about a complicated family . . . is stunningly told * The Times Children's Book of the Week *
This is a beautifully drawn portrait of three generations of women, hugely ambitious in its interwoven examination of sexual identity, family secrets, torn loyalties, family secrets, torn loyalties and the life-affirming power of breaking away from suffocating conventions * Daily Mail *
This moving tale of three generations of women shouldn't be missed * Closer *

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