Are We All Lemmings & Snowflakes?

Description

A trailblazing and painfully honest novel about mental health, friendship and making this crazy world a kinder place, from the author of the bestselling Am I Normal Yet? Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at "normality" for Olive, a girl on the edge, and for her new friends, who are all dealing with their own battles. But as Olive settles in, she starts to wonder - maybe it's this messed up world that needs fixing, and not them. And so she comes up with a plan. Because together, snowflakes can form avalanches... "Holly Bourne applies her inimitable surreal humour to the dark reaches of the disordered mind..." The Guardian

Holly Bourne is the author of Am I Normal Yet?, How Hard Can Love Be?, The Manifesto on How to be Interesting and Soulmates. She graduated with a first class degree in Journalism Studies and spent two years working as a local news reporter on the Surrey Mirror, garnering a nomination for Print Journalist of the Year in 2010. She worked as a journalist for TheSite.org, an advice and information website for 16-25 year olds. She lives in Lewes.

Alongside an intriguing concept, there are shrewd observations about mental health issues... that will reassure readers this is a book (and an author) that does, actually, 'get' it. * Irish Times * an honest, funny book full of heart * Irish Sunday Independent * As ever, bestselling young adult author Holly Bourne tackles a serious subject with humour and sensitivity. * Sunday Express S Magazine * Bourne is intensely readable and writes with compassion, insight and humour. * The Observer * Holly Bourne applies her inimitable surreal humour to the dark reaches of the disordered mind... Olive's passionate desire to spread a 'kindness virus' is tremendously endearing as she flies the flag for courage and altruism. * The Guardian *