This Boy I Hardly Know

Lisa Heathfield

‘What they want is love . . . they’ll cross the country and break their hearts to hang on to it’ Melvin Burgess

Sixteen-year-old Dusty is smart, talented and fiercely protective of her younger sister Poppy. They’ve been moved from foster carer to foster carer, until one day the unthinkable happens: Dusty and Poppy are separated, and no one can say when they will see each other again.

Devastated but determined, Dusty has to find a way to reach Poppy. Everything seems stacked against her until she meets beautiful, fearless Cooper at her children’s home, and together they decide to run . . .

‘Raw, real, and full of heart’ Ciara Smyth

'Daisy and Cooper have my heart entirely' Louisa Reid

'Full of urgent love, complex betrayals and ferocious secrets' Luke Palmer

Reviews

"A powerful, heart-rendering insight into care, siblinghood, and found family, so wonderfully and evocatively written. Love, hurt, anger and resilience shine through these characters and make it impossible to put the novel down until we know Dusty and Cooper's fates"
Margaret McDonald

"Packed with colour and burning with life’s force… Lisa Heathfield’s brilliant protagonist is full of urgent love, complex betrayals, and ferocious secrets"
Luke Palmer

"Raw, real, and full of heart"
Ciara Smyth

"What they want is love . . . they'll cross the country and break their hearts to hang on to it"
Melvin Burgess

"Dusty and Cooper have my heart entirely. How do we live in a world where such precious lives are trampled so brutally?"
Louisa Reid