The Words We Keep

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Pub Date 30 Mar 2022 | Archive Date 21 Mar 2022
Simon and Schuster UK Children's | Simon & Schuster Children's UK

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It’s been two months since the Night on the Bathroom Floor – when Lily found her sister, Alice, hurting herself. Now Alice is coming home after treatment and it’s getting harder for Lily to outrun the compulsive thoughts she's having.
 
Meeting Micah, a guy with a troubled past of his own, the pair embark on a poetry project that helps Lily to see that the words she’s been holding back, desperately want to break through. But what will Micah think if he finds out who she really is? 

It’s been two months since the Night on the Bathroom Floor – when Lily found her sister, Alice, hurting herself. Now Alice is coming home after treatment and it’s getting harder for Lily to outrun...


Advance Praise

'Gorgeous and deeply touching.' – Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and You'd Be Home Now

'Wild, beautiful, and free. The Words We Keep is a poetic page turner. A raw, relatable story of mental illness, romance, and the power of love.' – Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places

'A luminous exploration into the restorative power of love and art.' – Jeff Zentner, award–winning author of In the Wild Light

'A sprawling, engrossing read' – Kirkus Reviews


'Gorgeous and deeply touching.' – Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces and You'd Be Home Now

'Wild, beautiful, and free. The Words We Keep is a poetic page turner. A...


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ISBN 9781471184512
PRICE US$11.00 (USD)
PAGES 400

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I really enjoyed reading this book right from the beginning, I was hooked almost instantly and didn’t want to stop reading. I liked the story as a whole and think it has an important message for everyone, but especially teens and young adults. Even though some of Lilys choices in this annoyed me, I found that I still liked all the main characters. I personally found Lily and Alice particularly relatable and one part was so relatable to me, I even found myself with tears running down my face. I would definitely love to see this book be turned into a movie and think it would be a hit, with a powerful, important message to share with the world. One other thing I found particularly enjoyable also was the poems that were in the book which the characters wrote, I feel like this was something a little different and they were really good. This book will have you on an emotional rollercoaster, sometimes happy, heartbreaking and inspiring. This is definitely one of my favourite fictions I’ve read and it was brilliantly wrote. The only suggestion I’d have was that this book would be the perfect storyline to be wrote from different perspectives. Alternating chapters maybe but other then that, amazing book and would highly recommend. The author wrote “You don’t fix you, because you are not broken. You are already whole, even if you need help. And you are not alone.” This resonated on a personal level and I’m sure this alone will make a difference to so many people out there struggling who might read this.

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