The Powers are no ordinary family - they're pooper-soured! That is, super-powered. All except Suzie. Poor ordinary Suzie has no powers at all. Or does she? Meet the not-so-super superheroes who seem to attract trouble wherever they go.
Powerful, poetic and disturbing, Needlework is a girl's meditation on her efforts to maintain her bodily and spiritual integrity in the face of abuse, violation and neglect.
Paperback edition of bestselling book from 2017, with a bonus story in this edition A collection of thirteen dark, feminist retellings of traditional fairytales from one of Ireland's leading writers for young people.
A boy who finds speaking difficult enters a hidden world of talking animals, a world where language is power. Can he find his voice to help the wolves outsmart the clever foxes?