Period by Emma Barnett

Period by Emma BarnettTerrific and timely' Elizabeth Day 'Stories that will make you cringe, weep and laugh out loud' Scarlett Curtis 'Brilliant, informative and funny.' Jennifer Saunders 'Passionate, informed and thought provoking.' Jane Garvey 'Clever, useful and wise. Read it. Pass it on to your daughters. And then to your sons.' Fi Glover 'Cuts right through all the myths and embarrassment with searing facts, honesty and, perhaps more importantly, humour. A bleeding

winner of the 2019 Booker Prize for Girl

cheer and laugh out loud as the heroines deal with trolls

and pregnant for the fourth time

A glorious and ambitious sequel to I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree - winner of Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year 2018 and Red Magazine's Children's Illustrated Book of the Year 2019

while libraries on the continent were lost forever

or a dramatisation of philosophical ideas' Independent

the police mistaking her father for a leading terrorist

have in common

often clinging on – to sanity or solvency or a story – by their fingertips

both now and in the recent past

"-Teen Vogue

and gently wins her trust – as slowly