New Novel From the 2007 Costa Children’s Award Winner
I ask for a mirror. My chest is covered in a wide tape, so I can’t see the clips or incision but I want to see my face, to see if I’ve changed. I have – I’m pink! Pink cheeks! Pink lips! Normal coloured. Not blue anymore. I look normal.
Gussie wants to go to school like every other teenage girl and find out what it’s like to kiss a boy. But she’s just had a heart and lung transplant and she’s staying on London to recover from the operation.
Between managing her parent’s love lives, waiting for her breasts to finally start growing, and trying to hide a kitten in her dad’s expensive bachelor pad, Gussie makes friends with another cardio patient in the hospital, and find out that she can’t have everything her heart desires…
