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    Furious Thing
    Furious Thing
    Furious Thing
    Audiobook9 hours

    Furious Thing

    Written by Jenny Downham

    Narrated by Jenny Downham

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    About this audiobook

    From the critically acclaimed author of Before I Die comes a remarkably affecting story of a girl who burns with anger for reasons she can't understand, and the power and risk that comes with making noise. Fans of E. Lockhart, Jennifer Niven, and Gayle Foreman will find their own fury in this exceptional novel for our times.

    Bad things happen when you're around, Lex... That's what her step-father tells her. That's what she believes about herself.

    But how can she convince herself and everyone around her that her anger doesn't make her a monster? If only she could stop losing her temper and behave herself, her step-father would accept her, her mom would love her like she used to and her stepbrother would declare his crushing desire to spend the rest of his life with her. She wants these things so badly, she's determines to swallow her anger and make her family proud.

    But pushing fury down doesn't make it disappear. Instead, it simmers below the surface waiting to erupt. There'll be fireworks when it does...

    An intensely real story of manipulation and identity, Furious Thing is about the slippery slope of manipulation and how one girl can fight to claim back the spaces that belong to her.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateJan 7, 2020
    ISBN9781338605259
    Furious Thing
    Author

    Jenny Downham

    Jenny Downham trained as an actor and worked in alternative theatre before starting to write. Her first book, Before I Die, is an international bestseller. It won the Branford Boase Award, the Australian Silver Inky Award for best international novel, and was shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Her second novel, You Against Me, won the Waterstones Teen Fiction Prize. Jenny hopes that this story will encourage more girls to make a noise so that their voices can be heard.

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