Knife edge

Description:

A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the Noughts & Crosses trilogy.Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father - Callum. Eaten up with bitterness, Callum's brother Jude, blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered. Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?

subjects: Race relations,  Juvenile Fiction,  Racism,  Prejudices,  Fiction,  Grief,  Despair,  Revenge,  Children's fiction,  Grief, fiction,  Prejudices, fiction,  Race relations, fiction,  Readers,  Dystopia,  Race discrimination,  Readers (Adult),  Anglais (Langue),  Lectures et morceaux choisis pour adultes,  Racially mixed children -- Juvenile fiction,  Racially mixed children

Places: Britain