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Knife Edge

Malorie Blackman

Book 2 of Noughts & Crosses

  • 366 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 2003
  • 13 editions
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1 About this book

A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the Noughts & Crosses trilogy. Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father - Callum. Eaten up with bitterness, Callum's brother Jude, blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered. Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?

  • Race relations
  • Racism
  • Grief
  • Dystopian fiction
  • Prejudices
  • Despair
  • Revenge
  • Children's fiction

2 About Malorie Blackman

Born 1962

Dame Oneta Malorie Blackman (born 8 February 1962) is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She primarily writes literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues, for example, her Noughts and Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional alternative Britain to explore racism.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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