Tinder

Dazzling and haunting…a dark and deliciously macabre read with an unexpected twist * The Best New Children’s Books 2015 * Fast-paced and gripping * Stylist * Profoundly beautiful and thought-provoking … mesmeric … ultimately, we are in the hands of a consummate storyteller who provides her readers with nothing less than a meditation on desire, maturation, reality and death. * INIS Magazine * Luminously written … rich and rewarding * Books For Keeps * A dark but delightful read * SFX Magazine * Exquisite … as dark and captivating as you would hope * The Bookseller * Profoundly beautiful * Recommended Reads * David Roberts’ elegant illustrations are integral to the beautiful design … A volume to treasure and re-read * Financial Times * Mesmeric … another jewel in Gardner’s crown * The Times * The natural elegance of Roberts’ style marries perfectly with the supernatural elements of Gardner’s powerful narrative – by turns ghostly, tender, dramatic * Books For Keeps * Exquisite * School Zone * A dark dream – an exploration of memory, grief, fear, lust and love. Gardner’s delicate, eerie rendering lends it a new grace * The Daily Telegraph * Gardner’s prose in Tinder is adventurous and hugely energetic … Its a beauty * The Guardian * An exquisitely macabre fairy story for teenagers * The Daily Telegraph *

Sally Gardner is an award-winning novelist from London. Her books have been translated into 22 languages and have sold more than one million copies in the UK. Her historical novel for older readers, I, Coriander, won the Smarties Children’s Book Prize in 2005. Two thrillers both set at the time of the French Revolution, The Red Necklace and The Silver Blade, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize in 2009, followed. Actor Dominic West (The Wire) has bought the film rights to both titles. Her YA novel, The Double Shadow, was published in 2011 to critical acclaim. Sally Gardner’s stories for middle readers include Lucy Willow and the popular Magical Children series of six titles: The Strongest Girl in the World, The Invisible Boy, The Boy with Magic Numbers, The Smallest Girl in the World, The Boy with the Lightning Feet, and The Boy who could Fly, which are also available as audio books. She has also written and illustrated picture books including The Fairy Catalogue, The Glass Heart, The Book of Princesses and Playtime Rhymes. Sally Gardner continues to be an avid spokesperson for dyslexia, working to change the way it is perceived by society. She is dyslexic and argues that it is not a disability, but a gift.

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