All the Things We Never Said
Runner-up YA in the inaugural Diverse Book Awards 2020.
16-year-old Mehreen Miah's anxiety and depression, or 'Chaos', as she calls it, has taken over her life, to the point where she can't bear it any more. So she joins MementoMori, a website that matches people with partners and allocates them a date and method of death, 'the pact'. Mehreen is paired with Cara Saunders and Olivia Castleton, two strangers dealing with their own serious issues.
As they secretly meet over the coming days, Mehreen develops a strong bond with Cara and Olivia, the only people who seem to understand what she's going through. But ironically, the thing that brought them together to commit suicide has also created a mutually supportive friendship that makes them realise that, with the right help, life is worth living. It's not long before all three want out of the pact. But in a terrifying twist of fate, the website won't let them stop, and an increasingly sinister game begins, with MementoMori playing the girls off against each other.
A pact is a pact, after all.
In this powerful debut written in three points of view, Yasmin Rahman has created a moving, poignant novel celebrating life.
Yasmin Rahman is a British Muslim born and raised in Hertfordshire. She has MAs in Creative Writing and Writing for Young People. Her debut novel, ALL THE THINGS WE NEVER SAID, was nominated for the Carnegie Medal, and was the runner-up YA book in the inaugural Diversity Book Awards.
Yasmin also works as a librarian at a secondary school, where she spends her days making funky displays and trying to shove her friends' books into students' hands. In her spare time, Yasmin watches every medical drama ever made, and sometimes designs bookish fan art; her posters are sold worldwide on behalf of John Green, and Colleen Hoover.