Far From You

A small-town girl with chronic pain and mobility issues searches for the killer of the girl she loved; this dual-timeline YA is part mystery, part doomed romance.

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Far From You

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Nine months. Two weeks. Six days.

That’s how long recovering addict Sophie’s been drug-free. Four months ago her best friend Mina died in what everyone believes was a drug deal gone wrong – a deal they think Sophie set up. Only Sophie knows the truth. She and Mina shared a secret, but there was no drug deal. Mina was deliberately murdered.

Forced into rehab for a drug addiction she’d already beaten, Sophie’s finally out and on the trail of the killer. But can she track them down before they come for her?

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Author: Tess Sharpe
Publisher: Hachette (Indigo)
Publication year: 2014
ISBN: 9781780621654
Age category: young adult
Disabilities portrayed: addiction, chronic pain, limp
Genres: contemporary, thriller

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Born in a mountain cabin to a punk-rocker mother, Tess Sharpe grew up in rural northern California. She lives deep in the backwoods with a pack of dogs and a growing colony of formerly feral cats. She is the author of Barbed Wire Heart, the critically acclaimed YA novel Far From You, and The Evolution of Claire, a Jurassic World prequel. She is also the co-editor of Toil & Trouble, a feminist anthology about witches. Her short fiction has been featured in All Out, an anthology edited by Saundra Mitchell.

When [Sophie is] first adjusting to it, she sees her disability as taking a lot away from her. Being young and in that much pain is no fun — I know from personal experience, you feel angry a lot of the time — and I wanted to explore addiction that stemmed not only from an emotional place, but from a physical place.

(Fearless Fifteeners, April 2014)

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