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|title=Ketchup Clouds

|author=Annabel Pitcher

|reviewer=Jill Murphy

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=256

|publisher=Indigo

|date=November 2012

|isbn=1780620152

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'''Winner: Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013'''

"Zoe" has a terrible secret. She feels responsible for the death of a boy. It burns and burns and she has a huge need to confess but has no-one to confess ''to''. And so she decides to become the pen pal of a prisoner on death row in Texas. Her letters to Stuart tell both her story and his. Zoe is a pseudonym - as is her address in "Fiction Road" - but the tale she tells in midnight writing sessions in the garden shed, is true. It's the story of family tension, of a love triangle, and of a grief and guilt almost too big to bear...

If ''Ketchup Clouds'' appeals, I think you'd also like [[This Is Not Forgiveness by Celia Rees]], a dark and unsettling novel featuring three characters interconnected by more than just a love triangle, although it's that too. It was longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013.

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