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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, and art, and asks: what matters most in the... Read More
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Let the Light In

An extraordinary novel by mother and son authors Jenny Downham and Louis Hill. This is a searing, powerful and ultimately uplifting exploration of journeying through grief.

An extraordinary novel by mother-and-son authors Jenny Downham and Louis Hill. This is a searing, powerful, ultimately uplifting exploration of journeying through grief.

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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, and art, and asks: what matters most in the end?

Let the Light In by Jenny Downham and Louis Hill challenges readers to consider the depths of personal and collective grief.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781788453486

Publisher: David Fickling Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 January 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: David Fickling Books

Audience: Children, Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 384

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About the Author

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.

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