SH!T BAG XENA KNOX
AND YOU THINK YOU HAVE BAGGAGE
Paperback published by Hodder Children’s Books 22nd June 2023
ISBN 9781444972054
You’re either in or you’re out.
Come along with me on this SH!tty ride, or bail out now. It’s your choice.
Hey, at least you have a choice.
When Freya collapses and wakes up with a temporary ileostomy bag on her stomach, her dreams of the perfect summer go down the toilet. Instead of partying in the Algarve, she’s packed off to poo camp a place for kids with bowel disease to bond.
Could things get any worse? Yes. Yes, they could.someone has started calling her SH!t Bag and it’s catching on.
Freya decides to live up to the nickname, raging at her friends, her ex and the world. Only her campmate Chris seems to see past her new attitude.
An heart-breaking first page of the book
They calling me shit bag! My words hang in the sterile hospital air like a privacy curtain speckled with an ominous brown stain. I wait for Suriya’s rage. Morgen’s rebuke. Neither come. The boys are calling me Shit Bag! I repeat. Look! I turn my iPad screen to face them like I’m revealing their Miss Universe scoreboards, as they stand before me al dolled up for our end-of-year ball. This time Morven shakes her head slowly, and the realisation that they knew already makes me gag. Morven leaps into action and passes me the paper mache puke receptacle. I dry-reach into it. Gu-uhh! Suriya has bolted for the door, a far from the potential splatter range as possible not hugely surprising considering she’s wearing a white evening dress.
About author Xena Knox
I’m a YA author living between London and an arable farm in the Scottish Borders. Straight talking, I love writing gritty, dark humour YA fiction. When I’m not writing, I love getting my hands dirty as a florist/flower farmer, growing beautiful peonies and other cut flowers. Or doing my best not to be kicked by my unruly gang of Shetland ponies, Thoroughbreds and black devil sheep. My debut novel, SH!T BAG, is based on my own experiences with an ostomy bag as a teen and into my early twenties. Sh!t just got very real! Come, join my main character Freya on her sh!tty ride. https://www.instagram.com/xenaknox https://www.xenaknox.com https://www.twitter.com/XenaKnox
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