Knife Edge - Couverture souple

"It is really a cautionary tale about choice and the danger of nursing anger. This makes it a humane story that will help the cause of tolerance . . . It is written with passion, does not condescend and will appeal to teenagers who want to understand grown-up emotions" (The Sunday Times)

"Relentless in its pace . . . Devastatingly powerful" (Guardian)

"The story never flags, and characters develop . . . I repeatedly looked up from the pages, thinking "What would I do?" and this is the redeeming strength of Knife Edge - its moral heft" (Daily Telegraph)

"Malorie Blackman is writing a disturbing trilogy that should be read because it is important. And a gripping yarn as well" (School Librarian)

"Noughts & Crosses was brilliant and this sequel is as good, if not better . . . The reader is forced to confront issues of racism in our society in a unique way . . . but this is incidental as the tale is so compelling" (Carousel)

WHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . .
Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father ...
Jude is a nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered ...
Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?
A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the Noughts & Crosses trilogy.
'A powerful story of race and prejudice' SUNDAY TIMES
'Every bit as exciting and intelligently written as one would expect . . . both moving and thought-provoking' OBSERVER
'Supercharged' SCOTTISH SUNDAY HERALD
ONLY SUITABLE FOR OLDER READERS