Catch Me When You Fall (#1 Catch Me When You Fall)

Author: Eileen Merriman

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  • : 19.99 NZD
  • : 9780143770930
  • : Penguin Group (NZ)
  • : Penguin Books (NZ)
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  • : 0.305
  • : December 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 23mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : 22.0
  • : January 2018
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  • : Paperback
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  • : 823.3
  • : very good
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  • : 320
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Barcode 9780143770930
9780143770930

Local Description

Convincing and relevant. A NZ author to watch. -April

Description

A love story peppered with sadness and featuring two heroes who will break your heart and then mend it again. Alex meets Jamie at the same time as finding out that her leukaemia has returned. She discovers that he is bipolar, but he is also irresistible. It complicates things. Alex and Jamie sweep readers up and carry them with them in this story of love, struggle, courage and hope.

Awards

Finalist for the 2018 NZ Children's Book Awards - Copyright Licensing NZ Award for Young Adult Fiction 

Author description

Eileen Merriman works full-time as a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital. Her writing has appeared in a number of national and international journals and anthologies, including Smokelong Quarterly, The Island Review, Literary Orphans, the 2015 Bath Short Story Anthology, the Sunday Star-Times, F(r)iction, Takahe, Headland and Flash Frontier. Her awards include second in the 2015 Bath Flash Fiction Award, commended in the 2015 Bath Short Story Competition, third in the 2014 & 2015 Sunday Star-Times Short Story competitions, and first place in the 2015 Graeme Lay Short Story competition.