No Fixed Address
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: Andersen Press
Age 12+
Children's & Young Adult Fiction & True Stories
Felix Knutsson is nearly thirteen, lives with his mother and pet gerbil Horatio, and is brilliant at memorising facts and trivia. But Felix and his mom Astrid have a secret: they are living in a van. Astrid promises it’s only for a while until she finds a new job, and begs Felix not to breathe a word about it. So when Felix starts at a new school, he does his very best to hide the fact that most of his clothes are in storage, he only showers weekly at the community centre, and that he doesn’t have enough to eat. When his friends Dylan and Winnie ask to visit, Felix always has an excuse.
But Felix has a plan to turn his and Astrid’s lives around. All he needs is a little luck and a lot of brain power...
Creators
Susin Nielsen got her start writing for popular television series, Degrassi Junior High. Since then, she’s written for many Canadian TV shows and her young adult novels have received considerable critical acclaim. Word Nerd and My Messed-Up Life won multiple Young Readers’ Choice Awards. The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen won the UKLA Award, the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award, the Canadian Library Association’s Children’s Book of the Year and many Young Readers’ Choice Awards, while We Are All Made of Molecules was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Susin lives in Vancouver with her family and two extremely destructive cats.
Reviews
Beautifully wrought, compassionate and entertaining…A book worth giving a home to
Sunday Times
Sharply comic and sad by turns…another superb book
The Guardian
Susin Nielsen is fantastic at creating believable teenage voices
The Times
Funny, charming and full of heart, this is a really special book. I defy you not to root for Felix Fredrik Knutsson!
Felix’s deeply engrossing and fully immersive first-person narrative of homelessness is both illuminating and heartbreaking
Kirkus, starred review
