Grow

Shortlisted for the 2022 Branford Boase Award
Longlisted for the 2022 Yoto Carnegie medal
Featured on the Sunday Times 2021 Books of the year list

A white supremacist group and its violent leader target fifteen-year-old Josh, who is struggling to cope with his father's recent death at the hands of terrorists. Will he find the strength to resist? Will unlikely accomplice Dana help him plant something good in the space grief has left inside him?

Auteur

Luke Palmer is a poet, author and secondary school teacher and a graduate of the Bath Spa Creative Writing course. He lives in Wiltshire with his young family. Grow is his first novel.

Texte du rabat

A white supremacist group and its violent leader target fifteen-year-old Josh, who is struggling to cope with his father's recent death at the hands of terrorists. Will he find the strength to resist? Will unlikely accomplice Dana help him plant something good in the space grief has left inside him?