Handle With Care

Author: Louisa Reid

Interest age: from c 14 years | General fiction (Children's / Teenage) | Personal & social issues: teenage pregnancy (Children's / Teenage)

Published on 10^th October 2024 by Guppy Publishing Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 416 pages
197mm x 129mm x 27mm | 320g

'Heartbreaking, visceral, and powerful' Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in PiecesA stunningly powerful YA novel from a master storyteller told in both prose and verse. No one knows Ruby is pregnant - not even Ruby herself. So when she gives birth at school on a miserable February morning, her world is thrown into chaos. Keeping the baby isn't an option, but keeping quiet about who the father of her child definitely is; because if Ruby's best friend Ashley finds out the truth, then she'll lose her too.

When Ruby finally realises what she and her baby need, somehow that doesn't seem to matter any more. So Ruby must take matters into her own hands, with tragic consequences...