Winner of the Storylines Tessa Duder Award in 2022, The Impossible Story of Hannah Kemp is now available at your local book shop.
Hannah Kemp's life is not straightforward. The teenager deals daily with the fallout from a traumatic accident, for which she was responsible.
However, Hannah's story changes when she meets Dylan - a boy who works in a bookstore - and a mysterious mobile library rolls into town. Every book on the bus contains true stories about local people, revealing an impossible collection of hidden secrets.
Hannah finds that information is power, until she discovers her own book on the shelves ... and her world suddenly turns upside down.
Leonie Agnew is the winner of the Junior Fiction Award at the 2022 New Zealand Book Awards for The Memory Thief.
Leonie is reported to be an award-winning children's author, a former advertising copywriter, and currently moonlighting as a primary school teacher.
Witnesses claim her defining characteristic is a tendency to make things up. This is called lying, unless you write it down. Then it is pleasantly referred to as being an author.
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Website illustrations by Brunelle Dias
What critics are saying about The Memory Thief
“Following her last spellbinding tale The Impossible Boy, Leonie Agnew has created another spine-tingling adventure novel for middle-grade readers.”
“In taking the fantastical world and integrating it so seamlessly into the material, Agnew’s The Memory Thief solidifies her position as a writer of note in New Zealand.”
