The Girl Whose Mother Robbed a Bank
Awarded an Honorary Mention in the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators competition, Undiscovered Voices 2018.
“A beautiful story. I felt for Elle and fell in love with all the characters. It’s fair to say I shed a fair amount of tears reading this!”
“A compelling story I didn’t want to put down.”
“The characters felt so real; they are really engaging and brilliantly multi-faceted.”
“An important story about family relationships, just brimming with emotion.”
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Abandoned by her mum during a bank robbery when she was small, 16-year-old Elle has been in foster care ever since; her mum is wanted by the police.
Elle currently lives with the Love family, who would like theirs to be Elle’s forever home. However, when a video of Elle with a rare Purple Emperor butterfly goes viral, Elle’s future is threatened and nothing can be guaranteed.
The Girl Whose Mother Robbed a Bank is a moving YA story about messing up, reaching rock bottom, and feeling that life cannot get any worse … but it is also about hope, acceptance, redemption, and what ‘family’ really means.