'Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!'
Sephy is a Cross: she lives a life of privilege and power. But she's lonely,and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her.
Callum is a nought: he's considered to be less than nothing - a blanker,there to serve Crosses - but he dreams of a better life.
They've been friends since they were children,and they both know that's as far as it can ever go. Noughts and Crosses are fated to be bitter enemies - love is out of the question.
Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other.
But this is love story that will lead both of them into terrible danger...and which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come.
Voted as one of the UK's best-loved books,Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses is a seminal piece of YA fiction; a true modern classic.
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKISBN: 9780141378640Number of pages: 496Weight: 341 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 29 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Blackman's absorbing but alarming novel deals with themes of racism and prejudice...Unforgettable.'- Independent
'Stimulating and emotionally satisfying.'- Financial Times
'A gritty read for older children...At times this is a beautiful love story; at other times it is a harrowing and moral tale...'- Bookseller
'Packs some powerful political punches...But Blackman never compromises the story,which is dramatic,moving and brave.'- Guardian
'Inter-racial teenage love has never been more painful.'- Amanda Craig, The Times
'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be.'- Stormzy
'I grew up reading her. It was one of the few books about black people,so I felt seen.'- Candice Carty-Williams
'The most original book I've ever read.'- Benjamin Zephaniah
'Malorie Blackman is absolutely amazing ... (Noughts & Crosses) really spoke to me,especially as a woman of dual heritage.'- Zawe Ashton
Malorie Blackman
An award-winning British author and dramatist,Malorie Blackman is a major voice in children's publishing,holding the post of Waterstones Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She is best-known for her bestselling novels Noughts & Crosses series as well as Pig Heart Boy,Thief, Cloud Busting,Boys Don't Cry and Chasing the Stars. The fifth novel in the Noughts & Crosses series,Crossfire,will be published in August 2019.
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