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The Space We're In

By: Katya Balen
Narrated by: Huw Parmenter
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Bloomsbury presents The Space We're In by Katya Balen, read by Huw Parmenter.
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'A brave and beautiful book with a big heart. I loved it' – Jenny Downham

'A tear-jerker about family that shows us things that are important and true, and promotes compassion' – Nicolette Jones, Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week
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FROM THE WINNER OF THE YOTO CARNEGIE MEDAL 2022

We are her world and her universe and her space and her stars and her sky and her galaxy and her cosmos too.

Frank is ten. He likes cottage pie and football and cracking codes. Max is five. He eats only Quavers and some colours are too bright for him and if he has to wear a new T-shirt he melts down down down.

Sometimes Frank wishes Mum could still do huge paintings of stars and asteroids like she used to, but since Max was born she just doesn’t have time.

When tragedy hits Frank and Max’s lives like a comet, can Frank piece together a universe in which he and Max aren’t light years apart?

This jaw-dropping, heartbreaking and hopeful novel from Katya Balen will remind you we are all made of stardust. For fans of thought-provoking, moving middle grade from Wonder to Skellig.
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'Sensitive, heartbreaking ... a wonderful narrative voice' – Guardian
'A moving, absorbing novel about a pair of brothers – one is autistic, one is not, and I came to love both of them' – Joanne Limburg, author of The Autistic Alice
'Invigorating, enlightening and exciting' – James Sinclair, Autistic & Unapologetic
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©2019 Katya Balen (P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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