title: The Edge of Me
author: Brittan, Jane
description: Carnegie 2016 nominated: The Edge of Me is a coming of age novel with teeth: a gripping story of first love, of betrayal, secrets and lies, Young Adult fiction that is thrilling, immersive and totally unpredictable. Sanda is 16. Her parents escaped to London after the Bosnian War. One day she comes home to find them gone without a trace. Before she has time to figure out what’s happened, she’s kidnapped and taken across Europe into Serbia where she’s held prisoner. It’s here that she comes face to face with the brutal truth about what her parents really did in the war and where she learns that everything she’s ever been told, is a lie.