Orla is an unusually small, clever girl who just wants a normal life to hang out with her friends, watch trashy TV and, most importantly, avoid getting arrested again. But normal isn't an option when your reckless brother can't keep himself out of trouble for long.
Magda is older, just as clever as Orla, but twice as cruel. She has proof that could ruin Orla's family, and she tricks Orla into making a terrible bargain in exchange for her silence. Thus begins Orla's secret journey.
Squeezing into a suitcase, getting tossed onto a shuttle bus, and sneaking around luggage compartments isn't exactly how Orla imagined spending her days. Yet the harder she tries to wriggle free, the tighter she gets tangled in Magda's cruel schemes.
Orla must find a way to escape before the suitcase becomes her cage.
Eoin Redahan is the author of funny, fast-paced fiction for young readers and adults. He grew up in Ireland in a place of story and sideways rain. After butchering the Italian language in Turin for a year, working at a dysfunctional newspaper in Cambodia and travelling the world, he finally settled in London, where he lives with his wife and little boy. Eoin's professional background is in journalism, and he won Writer of the Year at the UK-wide Independent Publisher Awards twice for his feature writing. These happened so long ago that he should be embarrassed to mention them. But Eoin is shameless. Oh, and his name is pronounced Own, but he's fine with Owe-in too.
Orla is an unusually small, clever girl who just wants a normal life to hang out with her friends, watch trashy TV and, most importantly, avoid getting arrested again. But normal isn't an option when your reckless brother can't keep himself out of trouble for long.
Magda is older, just as clever as Orla, but twice as cruel. She has proof that could ruin Orla's family, and she tricks Orla into making a terrible bargain in exchange for her silence. Thus begins Orla's secret journey.
Squeezing into a suitcase, getting tossed onto a shuttle bus, and sneaking around luggage compartments isn't exactly how Orla imagined spending her days. Yet the harder she tries to wriggle free, the tighter she gets tangled in Magda's cruel schemes.
Orla must find a way to escape before the suitcase becomes her cage.
Eoin Redahan is the author of funny, fast-paced fiction for young readers and adults. He grew up in Ireland in a place of story and sideways rain. After butchering the Italian language in Turin for a year, working at a dysfunctional newspaper in Cambodia and travelling the world, he finally settled in London, where he lives with his wife and little boy. Eoin's professional background is in journalism, and he won Writer of the Year at the UK-wide Independent Publisher Awards twice for his feature writing. These happened so long ago that he should be embarrassed to mention them. But Eoin is shameless. Oh, and his name is pronounced Own, but he's fine with Owe-in too.
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