Eve Ainsworth: 7 books

My name is Maisy Malone. I’m seventeen years old, live in a ratty council house with my 60 year old, near-alcoholic Dad and a dog with a leaky bum.This is my blog. You can either like it, or you can…well… blog off!! ;o)Maisy is seventeen and has reason to be seriously fed up. Her Dad...

For Marty and Daisy, life is about pretending. Pretending means everything's fine. Pretending means not thinking about what's really going on. But the thing about pretending is, at some point, it has to stop. And then what? Written by the stellar Eve Ainsworth, TENDER is an important, insightful and real look into the lives of young carers.

How can you heal if you can't face your past? Confident, popular Gabi has a secret - a secret so terrible she can't tell her family, or her best friend. She can't even take pleasure in her beloved skateboarding any more. And then one day an impulse turns to something darker. Gabi has never felt so...

When Alfie Turner loses his mum, it feels like his world is falling apart. She was the glue that held their family together and, now that she's gone, Alfie and his dad don't really know how to be a family without her. And then Alfie meets Alice. Alice is a force of nature and has her own set of problems,...

The dark and compelling tale of an abusive teen relationship, told from the perspective of the victim, fourteen-year-old Anna.

Life is hard for Jess. School should be a safe place but at the moment it's everything Jess dreads, and it's made even more difficult by the threatening presence of Kez. Kez lives in a nicer part of town but her life isn't any sweeter. The only place she finds comfort is knowing she is better off than Jess - or so she thinks.

Poppy's life has turned into a nightmare. Mum's new boyfriend is moving in, along with his daughter, Kayla – the most popular girl in school. Poppy's dad is never around and appears to be drifting further and further away. And when it seems like things can't get any worse, Poppy becomes the target...