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The story of Joey Frascone, a boy from Yonkers, NY and his eccentric Italian-American familyJoey Frascone is a young kid growing up in tense, violent, racially divided Yonkers, New York in the Seventies and Eighties. His childhood is marked by four different homes, rotating sets of parents, and a whole bag of confused emotions. There are crushes on older girls to comprehend, new boyfriends and girlfriends his parents bring home to contend with, a serial killer on the loose in the neighbourhood, and a whole cast of violent, aggressive Italian-American uncles and cousins that Joey is desperate not to turn into. As he gets older, Joey's teenage dreams pull him away from Yonkers, towards the excitement of New York City, away from his family, but he is still, in many ways, just a handsome, charismatic kid trying to make sense of his world.Complete with a cast of sassy women, psychotic men, love-lorn teenagers, Say That To My Face has all the colour, charm, violence, nostalgia and schmaltz of an episode of The Sopranos. But Joey Frascone is the hero of this book and male and female readers will fall under his spell in equal measure.

This is a story for anyone who has ever felt like they don’t belong. ‘I really enjoyed this book … great observational comic gems within a fast moving story full of the reality of despair and hope in everyone’s lives’ MIRANDA HART ‘Keep the tissues close’ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING ‘A beautifully written debut novel with unforgettable characters and an irresistible message of redemption and belonging’ RED magazine‘This gem of a novel entertains and moves in equal measure’ DAILY MAIL‘Heartening and hopeful’ JESS KIDD, author of Things in Jars‘Mesmerizingly beautiful’ SARAH HAYWOOD, author of The Cactus‘An extraordinary masterpiece’ ANSTEY HARRIS, author of The Truths and Triumphs of Grace Atherton‘Gutsy, endearing and entertaining’ DEBORAH ORR‘Absolutely brilliant’ GAVIN EXTENCE, author of The Universe Versus Alex Woods_____________________________________________________________ Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in. At six, she’s memorising the dictionary. At seven, she’s correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi. And now that she's an adult, Augusta has no interest in the goings-on of the small town where she lives with her parents and her beloved twin sister, Julia. When an unspeakable tragedy upends everything in Augusta's life, she's propelled headfirst into the unknown. She's determined to find where she belongs – but what if her true home, and heart, are half a world away?_____________________________________________________________ AUGUSTA MAY NOT FEEL LIKE SHE FITS IN, BUT READERS HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH HER… ‘What a brilliant, brave, clever book’ Maddy P ‘A beautiful tale of family, of loss, of the awkward relationships we build with those we love the most…a must read!’ Amelia D ‘A powerful novel about fitting in, loss, & the people you really have connections with’ Siobhan D ‘The story made me laugh & cry in equal measure, and now it's finished I'm at a slight loss as what to read next’ Laura W