FAKE (FAKE)
Astrid Mohlin
Nominated for Swedish Radio’s prize for children’s literature
“For a brief moment, I stop. Should I really? I know that this will ruin people’s lives. Create chaos. But I don’t care. I hate them, all of them.”
EDDIE is tired of never getting to decide for himself what to do and who to hang out with. But when he finally gets the chance, he discovers something he wishes he could forget.
ZIGGY has to do something, or else she’ll lose her best friend forever. She just hadn’t thought it would go this far.
KIAN always gets blamed for everything. As the class troublemaker, he’s used to it, but he never could have dreamed how fake people actually are. What’s fake and what’s real? Welcome to Gropegård School.
Fake is based on the Swedish Radio podcast series with the same name. The story is inspired by interviews with hundreds of young people about what it’s like to be twelve years old today.
169 pages
Rights
Denmark: ABC Forlag
Sweden: Bonnier Carlsen
REVIEWS
“Exciting and insightful … Astrid Mohlin accurately captures the voice of twelve-year-olds with a narrative
technique that skilfully switches between the different narrative perspectives. Fake is a gem.”
Rating: 5/5
BTJ / SWE