Catch Me When You Fall
$20.53
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2018
Summary
Will Alex win the battle for life?
A moving novel about learning to find happiness in the face of uncertainty and discovering a love that transcends the boundary between life and death.
Seventeen-year-old Alex Byrd is about to have the worst day of her life, and the best. A routine blood test that will reveal her leukaemia has returned, but she also meets Jamie Orange.
Some people believe in love at first sight, and some don’t. I believe in love in four days. I believe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143770930 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143770934 |
| Author: | Eileen Merriman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Group (NZ) |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 127mm x 196mm |
| Audience Age: | 14-18 |
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Eileen Merriman
Eileen Merriman’s first young adult novel, Pieces of You, was published in 2017 and was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and a Storylines Notable Book. Since then, a stream of novels for adults and young adults have followed, receiving huge critical praise.
Merriman has been a regular finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. She was also a finalist in the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, and Moonlight Sonata was longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Editions of some of her young adult novels have been released in Germany, Turkey, and the UK, and three have been optioned for film or TV, including the Black Spiral Trilogy.
In 2024, Merriman’s Catch a Falling Star, which depicts a 15-year-old spiralling into a mental health crisis, won both the New Zealand Book Awards Young Adult Fiction Award and NZ Booklovers’ Best Young Adult Book.
Her other awards include runner-up in the 2018 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and third place in the same award for three consecutive years prior.
Merriman works as a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital.
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