Crongton: Home Girl

Naomi has been in the care system for a long time, and when she is placed with the Goldings, an emergency foster home, her expectations are low. However, connections find her, and Home Girl is a fast-paced, funny, tender, tragic, and full of courage novel by Alex Wheatle. It is his most moving and personal novel to date, offering no easy happy endings but a flickering sense of hope.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 17 August 2023
Publisher: Hachette Children's Group

This place is not my home. I haven't had a proper home since I can remember. This time next year, you'll forget who I am. I don't have a clue where I'll be by then. But I've gotten used to it.

Naomi has been bounced around the care system for far too long. When she's placed with the Goldings, an emergency foster home, her expectations are already on the floor. But sometimes connections find you where you least expect them.

Home Girl is fast-paced and funny, tender, tragic, and full of courage—just like Naomi. It is award-winning author Alex Wheatle's most moving and personal novel to date.

Studded with Wheatle's characteristic slang, Naomi's story is both heartbreaking and hilarious, offering no easy happy endings but a flickering sense of hope.

Guardian

Weight: 254g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781444974805