STORM
Frances's parents were not prepared for her birth: they had a blanket and an easel and some paint, but not anything useful, like a car or a phone. So it's no wonder Frankie has always had a temper. She was born on a BEACH, in a STORM.
What Frances was not prepared for was dying in a freak natural disaster that wiped out her whole town.
Waking up 100 years later, Frances finds a whole load of new things to be angry about. And that's before the visitors start turning up, treating her home like it's a tourist attraction. Which it is.
Only there are worse people out there than tourists and they're coming for Frankie.
Frankie is about to discover that there are things more important than herself - and that anger has its uses. Because when you have a storm inside you - sometimes the only thing to do is let it out
NICOLA SKINNER
Nicola's books have been The Times Children's Books of the Week, the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Statesman and Bookseller picks for the month, and nominated for the Blue Peter, Branford Boase and Carnegie book awards. Bloom was a Guardian Book of the Year.
Nicola was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to a German mother and an English father. She moved to England aged eight to attend a series of boarding schools where she was often told off for reading after lights out. She lives in a small village outside Bristol and works as a copywriter.
