It's really going to happen. They said it would, but this is quicker than anyone thought.

When you're 16 and time is running out, there's an awful lot of living to do...

Uplifting, life-affirming, joyous - this extraordinary novel celebrates what it is to be alive by confronting what it's really like to die.

'Destined to drive hundreds and thousands of readers to tears and to swift injunctions to all their friends to read it' (Observer)

'Downham's prose is brave and bare, her characters relentlessly realistic' (Sunday Telegraph)

'A work of great humanity and profound empathy' (Daily Express)

'Affecting and brave...for everyone, it is a reminder to value the people that matter, seize the moment, wish with courage, adventure with relish, even if it's just a trip to the swimming pool, drinking hot chocolate or driving down a dual carriageway in the rain' (Guardian)