About the Author: Emily Barr
Emily Barr worked as a journalist in London, but always hankered after a quiet room and a book to write. She went travelling for a year, writing a column in the Guardian about it as she went, and it was there that she had an idea for a novel set in the world of backpackers in Asia. This became Backpack, which won the WH Smith New Talent Award. She has since written eleven more adult novels published in the UK and around the world, and a novella, Blackout, for the Quick Reads series. Her twelfth novel, The Sleeper, is a psychological thriller set on the London to Cornwall sleeper train.
In 2013 she went to Svalbard with the idea of setting a thriller in the Arctic. The book that came out of it was The One Memory of Flora Banks, a thriller for young adults, which attracted universal interest from publishers before being bought pre-emptively by Penguin earlier this year. It will be published globally in January 2017.
She lives in Cornwall with her partner and their children.
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A Zoella Book Club 2017 novel by Emily Barr
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Paperback, Published in Jan 2017 by Penguin
ISBN10: 0141368519 | ISBN13: 9780141368511
Page count: 320
"I look at my hands. One of them says 'Flora, be brave'. I am Flora."
Flora has anterograde amnesia. She can't remember anything day-to-day: the joke her friend made, the instructions her parents gave her, how old she is.
Then she kisses someone she shouldn't have kissed - and the next day she remembers it. The first time she's remembered anything since she was ten.
But the boy is gone. Could he be the key to everything else she's forgotten?
With little more than the words "be brave" inked into her skin, and written reminders of who she is, Flora sets off on an impossible journey to Svalbard, Norway -- the land of the midnight sun -- determined to find Drake. But from the moment she arrives in the Arctic, nothing is quite as it seems...
A remarkable and powerful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the mind against all logic.
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