Are We All Lemmings & Snowflakes?

Nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2019.

A trailblazing and painfully honest novel about mental health, friendship and making this crazy world a kinder place.

«Bourne is intensely readable and writes with compassion, insight and humour» – Fiona Noble, The Observer

«Holly Bourne applies her inimitable surreal humour to the dark reaches of the disordered mind… Olive’s passionate desire to spread a ‘kindness virus’ is tremendously endearing as she flies the flag for courage and altruism» – The Guardian

«An honest, funny book full of heart» – Irish Sunday Independent

«Luckily Olive has a plan to solve all their problems. But how do you fix the world when you can’t fix yourself?»

Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at "normality" for Olive, a girl on the edge, and for her new friends, who are all dealing with their own battles. But as Olive settles in, she starts to wonder - maybe it's this messed up world that needs fixing, and not them. And so she comes up with a plan. Because together, snowflakes can form avalanches...