Last year was a tough one for me, and writing wasn’t easy to do, but perhaps there’s a grain of truth in the old adage about suffering creating great art because I am SO proud of this, my very next book, out in June:
Published by the fab team at Piccadilly Press, spearheaded by lovely editor Fliss Johnston, Jelly follows on from A Library of Lemons and A Storm of Strawberries, taking a look at another family with their own set of issues and worries, BUT it also contains poems and its own SONG which I’ve written and will share with you soon 😉
Things this book contains:
- being overweight/body image/social expectations about girls’ appearance
- a positive father figure
- starting periods
- a talent show
- being funny
- importance of friendships
- hiding your real feelings/pretending to be someone you’re not/fitting in
- cheeking teachers
- who am I? being yourself (which one?)
- music
- poetry as a way of expressing stuff you can’t tell anyone
- damaging grandparents
- football
- mental health
- doughnuts
NB this book contains no jelly
Cover illustration by Sara Mulvanny and design by Anneka Sandher
OUT ON 14TH JUNE 2018
Jo Cotterill 
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