How to be Normal

Thoughtful, complex and full of hope, like being given access to the insides of a teenage girl’s brain. An exploration of first friends and first loves, and – maybe most importantly – the first time of embracing rightful, powerful, transformative anger. * Sophie Jo, author of Red Flags *

Ange Crawford is a writer, editor and PhD candidate living on unceded Wurundjeri land. Her debut young adult novel, How to Be Normal, won the inaugural Walker Books Manuscript Prize. She writes in many different styles, but her work is often connected by her enduring interests in queerness, art, language, storytelling, place(lessness) and coming of age. Apart from writing and editing, she is a fan of cats and synthesisers, and can often be found with an armful of books in a local independent bookstore.