Cuckoo by Keren David

Cuckoo by Keren David

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Summary

Some teenagers dream of fame. But for actor Jake, fame is the starting point. The older he gets, the faster his star seems to fade. Now he's in free-fall . . . In Cuckoo, when a young man falls from stardom to homelessness it takes an unlikely angel to save him from disappearing completely.

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Cuckoo by Keren David

He's a household name . . . without a home Jake is an actor, a household name thanks to his role on the UK's most popular soap. But his character went upstairs to his bedroom six months ago and never came down again, and now Jake is facing an uncertain future. Add to that his dad's anger issues, the family's precarious finances and the demands of a severely autistic brother; Jake's home feels like a powder keg waiting to explode. It's easier to spend nights on friends' sofas and futons, but what happens when you feel like a cuckoo in every nest? Cuckoo is a novel about the roles we play when we don't fit in anywhere, and finding unlikely solace when home is the least welcoming place of all.
Well-written and gripping * The Bookbag *
A clever use of social media that teenagers will be comfortably familiar with * Daily Mail *
Keren David is a journalist and YA star who has been shortlisted for The Bookseller's YA Book Prize, the UKLA award and the Branford Boase Award, and nominated five times for the Carnegie Prize. Keren David started out in journalism as a teenage messenger, she trained as a reporter, and then later worked for many national papers before moving to Amsterdam with her family where she studied art history, learned to cycle and failed to learn Dutch. In 2007 she returned to London, and took a creative writing evening class at City University. Her first book, the award-winning When I Was Joe started out as a plot-planning exercise on the course. Keren is Features Editor for a national newspaper, and a Visiting Lecturer at City University. She is working on a musical adaptation of her book Lia's Guide to Winning the Lottery. Cuckoo is Keren's seventh book.
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ISBN 13 9780349002354
ISBN 10 0349002355
Title Cuckoo
Author Keren David
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 2016-08-04
Number of pages 272
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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