#Maggie Harourt

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READ A SNEAK PEEK OF THE NEXT MAGGIE HARCOURT SWOONER AT YALC!

OMG everyone, YALC is almost here, and Usborne YA will be giving away this STELLAR sampler featuring the first chapters of ALL of our 2020 YA titles, plus chapter one of Holly Bourne’s forthcoming book, THE PLACES I’VE CRIED IN PUBLIC. Woohoo.

Seriously, check out this list of 2020 authors. Next year is going to be SPECTACULAR!

Coming in February 2020, we have the long-awaited fourth book by Maggie Harcourt, THE PIECES OF OURSELVES. Maggie’s UNCONVENTIONAL is a classic YALC corker, so Maggie wrote us this little taster of what’s to come in her new 2020 book...

History's a funny thing. There's "History", which is queens and cathedrals, wars and laws - it's big and it's heavy and most of the time it feels pretty far away.

But what about the other kind of history: the smaller, quieter histories we all write just by getting on with life? How do we feel about those? And what if we stop getting on with life and find ourselves sort of... stuck? I wanted to tell a story that was about the past and the present, and how we deal with them. I wanted to tell a story about a girl who is desperate to run away from her own history... and what happens when instead, she runs into a guy who is completely obsessed with the past. Luckily for me, that was exactly when Flora and Hal turned up - because most of all, I wanted to tell a story about being lost and being found, in every possible sense. So what is The Pieces of Ourselves actually *about*? It's about Flora and Hal; about attics and mazes and letters and fairy lights, about family and courage and signs - and what happens when the past is so close you can touch it. Oh, and there might be some kissing too. Maybe.

Come grab your free sampler at YALC and read the first chapter of THE PIECES OF YOURSELVES...