Furious Thing

Lexi's angry. And it's getting worse. If only she could stop losing her temper, her step-father would accept her, her mum would love her again, and her step-brother would return her feelings. She wants these things so badly, she tries to push her fury down.But it isn't easy. Her rage is there for a reason. And if she stays quiet - she might just lose herself . . .



Jenny Downham trained as an actor and worked in community theatre for many years, using improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, youth clubs, housing estates, anywhere that theatre rarely existed - she spent many years putting herself in imaginary situations and playing all sorts of people she would never normally be cast as. It was a perfect apprenticeship for writing. Her first novel, Before I Die, is an international bestseller. It won the Branford Boase Award for most promising debut, the Australian Silver Inky Award for best international novel, was shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and was made into the blockbuster film, Now Is Good. Jenny's second book, You Against Me, won the inaugural Waterstones Teenage Book Prize, and her third novel, Unbecoming, was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and won the Stonewall Honor Award from the American Library Association.Jenny lives in London. She hopes that this story encourages more girls to make a noise so that their voices can be heard.



Wise, gripping and skilfully told... It gives permission to rage when fury is warranted



Piercingly well-observed... a masterpiece of shame and desire



A painfully enthralling, fiercely feminist account of emotional abuse and appropriate rage



Powerful



Furiously brilliant



Breathtakingly good



A wonderful book brimming with empathy and justified anger



An Extraordinary Book 2024