Joanne Horniman: 6 books

*Dear You, You are here. I don't know how I know that this is the beginning of you. I just do. I should be afraid. But what I feel is, we can do this. You and I.* When she was pregnant, Emmy had such high hopes for the future. But what happens when you can't love the baby you thought...

I remember when we lay together for the first time and I closed my eyes and felt the crackle of her dark hair between my fingers. She was all warmth and sparking light. When I was with her, my skin sighed that the centre of the world was precisely here . Anna is afraid she must be unlovable - until...

'I am a reading girl, with a pale face, and glasses. People who become enthralled by the world of books, as I am, are often thought to have dull lives, but I feel that my own life is made of the stuff of myth. Or anyway, I intend to make it so. So this is my story. It will be about birth + death and...

*My mother Emma, when she was a girl, dreamed of love, and she got it. She got the days and nights of bliss and the heady fragrance-filled summers, and two more daughters. Emma dreamed of love, and she got it. And, finally she got the moments of sick despair when she went out into the garden...

SHORT-LISTED: CBCA Book of the Year, Older Readers, 2005 'My name is Kate O'Farrell and I am seventeen years old. I am in my last year of school, and when that is over I will be leaving this place for good - going to a real city, where I will begin my new life. 'I have long red hair...

A lyrical gentle and insightful novel about a single teenage father caring for his baby while still searching for direction in his own life. Matt had loved Emmy with her freckled luminous magical body; he had loved the way she hadn't given a damn for anything the way she had climbed onto the roof...