Fifteen-year-old Zoe has a secret - a dark and terrible secret that she can't confess to anyone she knows. Annabel explores the themes of first love, guilt, and grief, introducing a character with a witty voice and true emotional resonance. Winner of the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2013, KETCHUP CLOUDS tells the story of one teenage girl with a very big secret. Rising literary star Annabel Pitcher pens a captivating second novel, rich with her distinctive balance between humor and heart. But the bottom line is that she should not have been writing to the prisoner in the first place. Harris receives her letters without having any way of contacting her. Only through her unusual confession can Zoe hope to atone for her mistakes that have torn lives apart, and work to put her own life back together again. In Ketchup Clouds, Zoe uses a pseudonym and gives a fictional return address, and Mr. Harris may never respond to Zoe's letters, but at least somebody will know her story-somebody who knows what it's like to kill a person you love. Hidden away in her backyard shed in the middle of the night with a jam sandwich in one hand and a pen in the other, Zoe gives a voice to her heart and her fears after months of silence. A story about how she fell for two boys, betrayed one of them, and killed the other. But then again, Zoe has an unconventional story to tell. Stuart Harris, a Texas Death Row inmate and convicted murderer. It wasn't your wife's jam the police found on your shoe. It's jam, not blood, though I don't think I need to tell you the difference. Ignore the blob of red in the top left corner.
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