A deeply hopeful YA book about coping with mental illness that’s ideal for followers of Young lady in Pieces

‘Profoundly moving . Will need your breath aside.’ –Kathleen Glasgow, writer of Girl in Items

Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mother as well as the twins. She has Grace. And she’s her dad, who tells her about the little child she was, and who must not be right here but is. Therefore Biz doesn’t tell anyone anything. Not really about her dark, runaway thoughts, not really about kissing Sophistication or about how exactly It Feels to Float noticing Jasper, the new young man. And she doesn’t tell anyone about her father. Because her father died when she was seven. And Biz understands how to float, there for the surface–normal okay regular fine.

But after what happens over the beach–first in the sea, and then in the sand–the tethers that keep Biz regular come undone. Father disappears and, with him, all comfort. It might be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or possibly stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back again to her. Or maybe–maybe probably maybe–there’s a third way Biz just can’t see yet.

Debut author Helena Fox tells a tale about love and grief, about inter-generational mental illness, and exactly how living with it really is both a bridge to someone cherished and shed and, also, a chasm. She explores the hard and beautiful places loss can take us, and honors those who hold us tightly when the current really wants to tug us out to ocean.

‘Give this to all or any your…friends immediately.’ –Cosmopolitan.com

‘I haven’t been thus dazzled by a YA in age range.’ –Jandy Nelson, writer of I’ll Provide you with the Sun (via SLJ)

‘Mesmerizing and well-timed.’ –Bustle

‘Nothing in short supply of exquisite.’ –PopSugar

‘Immensely satisfying’ –Ladies’ Life

* ‘Lyrical and profoundly affecting.’ –Kirkus (starred review)

* ‘Masterful…Just gorgeous.’ –Booklist (starred review)

* ‘Intimate…Unpredicted.’ –PW (starred review)

* ‘Fox writes with superb understanding and tenderness.’ –BCCB (starred review)

* ‘Frank [and] beautifully crafted.’–BookPage (starred review)

‘This book will explode you into atoms.’ –Margo Lanagan, author of Tender Morsels

‘Helena Fox’s novel delivers. Read it.’ –Cath Crowley, writer of Words in Deep Blue

‘This isn’t a book; it is a masterpiece of design.’ –Kerry Kletter, author of The First Time She Drowned

‘Perfect…Readers will be deeply moved.’ –Books+Publishing