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- ISBN 9781471418372
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 130 x 201mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Hot Key Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR WRITING 2026
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINDSOR ACADEMY TRUST 2026 SECONDARY BOOK AWARDS
A powerful verse novel about sexual consent, unplanned pregnancy and the breaking of taboos.
MARNIE'S REALLY MESSED UP THIS TIME.
Expelled and forced to change schools, the only empty seat in Marnie's new school is next to Zed, a nerd with zero tolerance for mistakes. Marnie (skilled at art and Spanish, struggles with numbers) can't wait to lose her virginity. Zed (brilliant at maths and physics, loathes languages) is a loner who can't stand being touched. They couldn't be less alike, but they both need good grades in the subjects they hate.
What starts as a trade in tuition turns into an unlikely friendship - and after Marnie has sex with a boy who lies about using a condom, she needs Zed's help to make the hardest decision of her life.
Tia Fisher writes books for the rebel inside her. She spent her youth desperate to escape the boredom of a tiny village in Norfolk, writing poems of love and rebellion and reading indiscriminately through the shelves of the local library.
After being expelled from boarding school and dropping out of university, Tia had a bewildering variety of jobs - from TV presenter to ESOL teacher to artists' model - before finding her happy place working in libraries and writing stories. In her fifties she went back to university, and is now the proud owner of a master's degree in writing for young people. She recently moved back to Norwich and now she loves it.
Tia's debut teen verse novel, Crossing the Line, was the winner of the 2024 Yoto Carnegie Shadowers' Choice Medal and the UKLA 11-14+ prize, and is in the 2024 Reading for Empathy collection. In 2026 Piccadilly Press will publish Tia's debut middle-grade story, Operation Doodlebug, which is set in World War Two.
Tia's website is at tiafisher.com. Tia's socials can be found at linktr.ee/tiafisherwrites.
