Off the Record

A teen journalist discovers the #metoo story of the decade and must decide whether to expose it, risking her career and the trust of the women who have entrusted her with their stories.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 27 May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

What would you sacrifice to expose the truth?

From Camryn Garrett, whose debut Full Disclosure was called honest, eye-opening, and heartful by Angie Thomas, comes a ripped-from-the-headlines story of a teen journalist who stumbles across the #metoo story of the decade and has to weigh the risks against the need to fight for justice.

When seventeen-year-old Josie Wright wins a contest to write a celebrity profile for Deep Focus magazine, she's equal parts excited and scared. Soon she is jetting off on a multi-city tour, rubbing elbows with sparkly celebrities, frenetic handlers, stone-faced producers, and eccentric stylists. She even finds herself catching feelings for the subject of her profile, dazzling young newcomer Marius Canet.

Josie's world is expanding so rapidly, she doesn't know whether she's flying or falling. But when a young actress lets her in on a terrible secret, and then the secrets keep coming, she realizes she's in over her head. She wants to do the right thing, but is this her story to tell? What if she lets down the women who have entrusted her with their stories? What if this ends her writing career before it even begins? There are so many reasons not to go ahead. . . but if Josie doesn't step up, who will?

This is a moving testament to the #MeToo movement, and all the ways women stand up for each other.

Brave, necessary, and unflinchingly real, Off the Record is an instant classic.

--Marieke Nijkamp, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends

Weight: 220g
Dimension: 196 x 128 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241367162