The Stories Grandma Forgot (and How I Found Them)

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From an award-winning poet comes a gripping mystery. "Grandma Farida has Alzheimer's - but I'm going to help her remember a huge secret..." Twelve-year-old Nyla's dad died when she was four, or that's what she's been told. So when Grandma Farida insists she saw him in the local supermarket, Nyla wonders if Grandma is simply "time travelling" again - the phrase she uses when Grandma forgets. But Grandma is Nyla's best friend and when she asks Nyla to find her dad and bring him home, Nyla decides to make a brand new promise to her Grandma: to find him. As Nyla turns detective and sets out on a journey through her family's past to try and find the truth, she also hopes that uncovering important stories will help her understand who she is, and where she fits in the world ... A page-turning verse novel about the power of memory and story-telling, and an unbreakable bond between a grandmother and granddaughter.

Nadine Aisha Jassat lives in Edinburgh, and grew up in the North of England with a Yorkshire mum and Zimbabwean dad. She is an award-winning writer, and the author of poetry collection Let Me Tell You This - shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and Herald Scotland Outstanding Literature Award. Nadine has been published widely, including in It's Not About the Burqa (shortlisted for the Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year), and has taught and performed internationally and across the UK. Nadine's work often combines storytelling and social justice, and she has delivered significant creative work with young women of colour exploring issues such as racism and sexism, and in 2018 founded the Readers of Colour book group at Glasgow Women's Library, which she still runs. She is a regular at her local library.