Snow Foal

Description

A beautiful and heart-wrenching middle grade debut full of love, healing, friendship and hope. Perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson, Cathy Cassidy, Pax and Gill Lewis. When eleven-year-old Addie goes to stay with a foster-care family on a remote Exmoor farm in the midst of a very cold winter, she is full of hurt, anger and a deep mistrust of everyone around her. Until one day, when she rescues a tiny wild foal from the moorland snow and Addie discovers that perhaps she's not so alone after all. And as adventure and unexpected friendship blossom, Addie is determined that both of them will know what is to be home again soon . . ..

Susanna Bailey divides her time between writing and lecturing in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Susanna wrote Snow Foal during her time at the same university where she drew much inspiration from her tutor, award-winning author David Almond. She went on to be awarded an MA in Writing for Young People. Snow Foal was shortlisted for the Joan Aitken Future Classics Prize, given an honorary mention in the United Agents/Bath Spa University Prize for the same year and longlisted for the Blue Peter Book Prize. Her second book, Otter's Moon won the Gold Made For Mums 2021 award. Raven Winter is her latest novel, publishing in late 2021.

I absolutely love Snow Foal - it's so truthful, tender and touching. A book to read in a day and remember for a lifetime (Dame Jacqueline Wilson, author of Tracy Beaker) A beautiful book with a big heart (Gill Lewis, author of Sky Hawk) How much my daughter and I enjoyed Snow Foal! It's a gripping sensitively written book' (Jenny McLachlan, author of The Land of Roar) A mesmerising new voice about a girl that deserves to be heard (Joanna Nadin) One of my most highly-anticipated reads of the year (Hana Tooke, author of The Unadoptables) Snow Foal shines out with compassion and understanding for the children at its heart. Susanna's writing is delicate and beautifully understated (Julia Green) A tender, lyrical tale for a cold winter's night that will lift the spirits and warm the heart (Steve Voake)