Unbecoming (Shortlisted For The Ya Book Prize)

Description: Katie's life is falling apart: her mum's controlling, her dad's run off, she's in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal and now her estranged grandmother's turned up on the doorstep and Katie's expected to take care of her. Soon Katie discovers she's not the only one in her family hiding the truth. If she's going to get her life back together, she's going to have to expose everyone's deepest secrets - including her own. Prizes: Shortlisted for the YA Book Prize Author Biography: Jenny Downham trained as anactor and worked in alternative theatre before starting to write.Her first book, Before I Die, is an international bestseller. It won the Branford Boase Award, the Australian Silver Inky Award for best international novel, and was short-listed for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. Her second novel, You Against Me, won the Waterstones Teen Fiction Prize. Jenny lives in London.