Yours From the Tower
Age 12+
Romance & Relationships Stories Personal & Social Issues: Sexuality & Relationships Personal & Social Issues: Self-Awareness & Self-Esteem
Three very different young women make their way through late Victorian England - can they each find true happiness?
Tirzah, Sophia and Polly are best friends who’ve left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. Polly is teaching in an orphanage. Sophia is looking for a rich husband at the London Season. And Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters, they share their hopes, their frustrations, their dramas ... and their romances. Can these three very different young women find happiness?
Creators
Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Liverpool with her husband and two sons.
Reviews
Nicholls award-winning young adult novels conjure up the confusion and passion of adolescence — and never more so than in this thrilling and cleverly constructed story… Against a backdrop of feminism, Nicholls balances their contrasting characters with delightful wit and warmth
Daily Mail
The perfect novel for our anxiety-ridden times, with its thrilling plot, brave heroines and empowering message… This is simply a heavenly book that anyone 10+ will want to lose themselves in on cold, autumnal nights
The Bookseller, Book of the Month
Technically brilliant and consistently engaging… could well be [Sally Nicholls’] best yet
Books for Keeps 'Immersive', Guardian
An unputdownable friendship story
Hilary McKay
A gorgeous, immersive book
Observer
