Sunflowers In February

  • Young Adult; Humour; Drama

  • February 2018

    • World Rights: Hot Key, Bonnier Zaffre

This funny yet heartbreaking teen and YA novel movingly explores what happens when Lily dies in a car accident. The trouble is, Lily is really not sure at all if she wants to 'move on'...

Lily wakes up one crisp Sunday morning on the side of the road. She has no idea how she got there. It is all very peaceful. and very beautiful. It is only when the police car, and then the ambulance arrive, and she sees her own body, that she realises that she is in fact ... dead. But what is she supposed do now? Lily has no option but to follow her body and see her family - her parents and her twin brother start falling apart. And then her twin brother Ben gives her a once in a deathtime opportunity - to use his own body for a while. But will Lily give Ben his body back? She is beginning to have a rather good time...

  • LONGLISTED FOR THE BRANFORD BOASE AWARD 2019

Selected Praise

I genuinely thought it was wonderful. Funny, tough, smart and infuriating; Lily’s voice demands to be heard even from beyond the grave, and what a pleasure it was to experience.
— Matthew Crow, author of Another Place
Fascinating and thought-provoking.
— Juno magazine
Powerful, the imagery beautiful, the characters relatable.
— The Bookbag

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