Boy Underwater

SELECTED AS WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE AWARD A heart-breaking, heart-warming novel for everyone of 10 and older – this book will probably make you cry, and will definitely make you laugh. Cymbeline Igloo (yes, really!) has NEVER been swimming Not ever. Not once. But how hard can it be? He’s Googled front crawl and he’s found his dad’s old pair of trunks. He’s totally ready. What he’s not ready for is the accident at the pool – or how it leads his mum to a sudden breakdown. Now, with the help of friends old and new, Cymbeline must solve the mystery of why his mum never took him near water – and it will turn his whole life upside down… ‘A wonderful story, moving and funny’ – Ross Welford In this top juvenile fiction, Cymbeline Igloo navigates the mysteries of his family's past, unearthing themes of grief, depression, and bereavement. The best of children's literature, it explores mental illness with a sensitivity that is both heart-breaking and heart-warming. For fans of Stewart Foster (Can You Feel the Noise?), Katherine Rundell (The Wolf Wilder), Maz Evans (Beyond the Odyssey), Nizrana Farook (The Boy Who Met a Whale), and J M Forster (Bad Hair Days).