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Beautiful Broken Things Series

This series delves into the complexities of adolescence and the fragility of friendship. Follow characters as they grapple with their own inner demons while their relationships are tested to their limits. It's a raw and poignant exploration of what it means to support each other when worlds fall apart, and how love and loss can shape young lives. These stories capture the triumphs and heartbreaks of growing up with honesty and empathy.

Fierce Fragile Hearts
Beautiful Broken Things

Recommended Reading Order

  1. Beautiful Broken Things

    • 352 pages
    • 13 hours of reading

    A heart-stoppingly beautiful debut novel about what it means to be a friend when your whole world is falling apart. Now reissued with a fresh cover look.I was brave. She was reckless. We were trouble Best friends Caddy and Rosie are inseparable. Their differences have brought them closer, but as she turns sixteen Caddy begins to wish she could be a bit more like Rosie - confident, funny and interesting. Then Suzanne comes into their lives: beautiful, damaged, exciting and mysterious, and things get a whole lot more complicated. As Suzanne's past is revealed and her present begins to unravel, Caddy begins to see how much fun a little trouble can be. But the course of both friendship and recovery is rougher than either girl realizes, and Caddy is about to learn that downward spirals have a momentum of their own.Beautiful Broken Things is a moving story of friendship from debut author Sara Barnard, shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and selected as part of Zoella's Book Club.Praise for Beautiful Broken Things"I felt like I was living this book." -Zoella"Beautiful Broken Things is the book I've been waiting for. It made me want to go and rugby-tackle my best friends and give them a giant hug. It's a beautiful tale of the power and complexities of female friendship." -Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet?

    Beautiful Broken Things1
    3.8

  2. Fierce Fragile Hearts

    • 384 pages
    • 14 hours of reading

    Fierce Fragile Hearts is the stunning companion novel to Sara Barnard's YA bestseller Beautiful Broken Things. It is about leaving the past behind, the friends who form your future, and learning to find love, in all its forms.Two years after a downward spiral took her as low as you can possibly go, Suzanne is starting again. Again. She's back in Brighton, the only place she felt she belonged, back with her best friends Caddy and Rosie. But they're about to leave for university. When your friends have been your light in the darkness, what happens when you're the one left behind?

    Fierce Fragile Hearts2
    4.3