Guardian children's fiction prize book club: All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Find out all about All the Bright Places, the seventh book under the spotlight in the Guardian children’s fiction prize series, watch Jennifer Niven’s video on why she wrote the book and find out how to enter our young critics prize

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Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. Heartwarming and heartbreaking in equal measure, All the Bright Places is a powerful and moving reflection on how far we will go to save the one we love.

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