Book description
Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a
nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated
as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle
against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose
virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows into a young
adult, she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage and
becomes determined to find out more. But her father's family has a
complicated history - one tied up with the fight for equality for the
nought population. And as Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy
and into this world, she finds herself drawn inexorably into more and
more danger. Suddenly it's a game of very high stakes that can only
have one winner . . .
The powerful third story in the Noughts & Crosses sequence.
Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most
imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. The novels in
her Noughts & Crosses sequence have won several awards,
including the Children's Book Award, and she has won many other awards
for her books for the Random House list. Both Hacker and
Thief! won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award - Malorie is the
only author to have won this award twice - while Hacker also
won the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994. Her work has
appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted
for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV
serial. Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers.
In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in
recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of
children's books.
In 2008, she was then honoured with an OBE for her services to
Children's Literature.
