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  • Published: 15 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781862308169
  • Imprint: Definitions
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $22.99

Forbidden




Tabitha Suzuma is award-winning author who never shies away from challenging subject matter for older readers. This beautifully written, powerful new book tackles the biggest taboo of all . . .

She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed.
He is seventeen; gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future.
And now they have fallen in love.

But . . .
They are brother and sister.

Forbidden will take you on an extraordinary emotional journey. Passionate and shocking, this is a book you will remember long after you have put it down.

  • Published: 15 May 2010
  • ISBN: 9781862308169
  • Imprint: Definitions
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Tabitha Suzuma

Tabitha Suzuma was born in 1975 and lives in London. She has always loved writing and would regularly get into trouble at the French Lycée for writing stories instead of listening in class. She used to work as a primary school teacher and now divides her time between writing and tutoring. A Note of Madness is her first novel and was the TES Book Award runner up.

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Praise for Forbidden

A complex novel that succeeds in exploring the controversial subject of sibling incest without sensation . . . A chilling, powerfully written tale with lasting effects for both teenage and adult readers

Jake Hope, The Bookseller

A harrowingly tragic story . . . Suzuma's writing is compelling and its quality beyond question but there will be many (and not just those in the "young adult" category) who will be genuinely shocked by what they are reading here

Robert Dunbar, The Irish Times

The reader is immediately involved

Lesley Martin, School Library Association

It is sensitively written (with one quite graphic sex scene), and alternating chapters from the protagonists' point of view lets the reader get inside their heads. Recommended for very mature readers

Inis

The novel's surprises continue to the very end

Hazel Rochman, Booklist USA