Beautiful Broken Things
2016 • 352 pages

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A heart-stoppingly beautiful debut novel about what it means to be a friend when your whole world is falling apart. Now reissued with a fresh cover look.I was brave. She was reckless. We were trouble Best friends Caddy and Rosie are inseparable. Their differences have brought them closer, but as she turns sixteen Caddy begins to wish she could be a bit more like Rosie - confident, funny and interesting. Then Suzanne comes into their lives: beautiful, damaged, exciting and mysterious, and things get a whole lot more complicated. As Suzanne's past is revealed and her present begins to unravel, Caddy begins to see how much fun a little trouble can be. But the course of both friendship and recovery is rougher than either girl realizes, and Caddy is about to learn that downward spirals have a momentum of their own.Beautiful Broken Things is a moving story of friendship from debut author Sara Barnard, shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and selected as part of Zoella's Book Club.Praise for Beautiful Broken Things"I felt like I was living this book." -Zoella"Beautiful Broken Things is the book I've been waiting for. It made me want to go and rugby-tackle my best friends and give them a giant hug. It's a beautiful tale of the power and complexities of female friendship." -Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet?


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Beautiful Broken Things is a 4-book series with 3 released primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Sara Barnard.

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Beautiful Broken Things
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A Beautiful Broken Christmas
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Fierce Fragile Hearts
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Something Certain, Maybe

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It was interesting and meaningful, but it never really touched me emotionally

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