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Overview: Alexia Casale is a British-American author, script consultant, and course director of the MA in Writing for Young People program at Bath Spa University. This is her adult debut. Alexia has over a decade of experience as an editor specializing in the field of male violence against women and girls, having been an executive editor of an international human rights journal. She holds two master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from Essex.
Genre: Fiction > YA
House of Windows (2015)
A wry, heartfelt and beautiful second novel from award-winning author of The Bone Dragon, Alexia Casale, about how the people we love the most can be the most difficult people to love.
‘The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.’ Robert Louis Stevenson
Nick hates it when people call him a genius. Sure, he’s going to Cambridge University aged 15, but he says that’s just because he works hard. And, secretly, he only works hard to get some kind of attention from his workaholic father.
Not that his strategy is working.
When he arrives at Cambridge, he finds the work hard and socialising even harder. Until, that is, he starts to cox for the college rowing crew and all hell breaks loose…
Sing If You Can’t Dance (2023)
An entirely original and much needed authentic perspective from a teenager coming to terms with her disability as she’s coming of age.
Ven has her future all planned out. Her dance group is going places and so is she . . . Then she collapses. On stage.
In hospital, Ven discovers that she has a medical condition – one that threatens to ruin everything. No more dancing . . . walking is challenging enough. But she doesn’t want your pity. Ven is determined to have a big, exciting life. Sure, her future might be different, but it’s not over . . . Because if you can’t dance, you can always sing!
Refreshing, uplifting and original, Sing if you Can’t Dance is the unforgettable story of a teenager living life on her own terms.
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