The Crash by Lisa Drakeford

Title: The Crash
Author: Lisa Drakeford
Published by: Chicken House
Publication date: 6th July 2017
Pages: 285
Genres: Young Adult/Contemporary/Mystery
Format: Paperback
Source: Review copy from the publisher.

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Best friends Sophie and Tye are watching TV when a car crashes through the living room wall. In the car are twins, Harry and Gemma. Next door, eleven-year-old Issy witnesses the accident.

In the aftermath, Tye is fighting for his life, Gemma's dark past threatens the present, and Sophie starts to fall for someone she shouldn't. And all the while Issy hides a terrible secret...

Having loved Drakeford's debut titled The Baby a couple of years ago, I was very excited to learn of her new release, The Crash. Told in the same style as The Baby, but a standalone with a completely new set of characters, the point of view alternates between chapters and we see a messed-up situation from several different angles, each with added opinions or backstories which add up to the climactic ending.
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