Knife Edge (#2 Noughts and Crosses)

Author(s): Malorie Blackman

Young Adult

WHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . . 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 . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he 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? A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the Noughts & Crosses sequence.


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It is really a cautionary tale about choice and the danger of nursing anger. The Sunday Times Relentless in its pace ... Devastatingly powerful Guradian I repeatedly looked up from the pages, thinking "What would I do?" Daily Telegraph Malorie Blackman is writing a disturbing trilogy that should be read because it is important. School Librarian Noughts & Crosses was brilliant and this sequel is as good, if not better ... The reader is forced to confront issues of racism in our society in a unique way ... Carousel

General Fields

  • : 9780141378657
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 28 February 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Malorie Blackman
  • : 384