Little, Brown Book Group

'What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and - several times - to tears. It sings with joy and kindness' Robert Macfarlane

'The essential hormone handbook . . . it should be made part of the core curriculum up and down the land' STYLIST 'Both fascinating and a huge relief' GRAZIA

The remarkable poems and letters written by a young boy display a perception beyond his years and, in the letters, a wicked sense of humour. Poignantly, Johnnie died in 2004 at the age of 17 and his writings are edited here by his mother.

Winner of the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize and the Wolfson History Prize In March of 1933, a disused factory surrounded by barbed wire held 223 prisoners in the town of Dachau.