We Are Young

“They call us lazy, irresponsible, dangerous, ungrateful.
You hardly ever see positive stories about teenagers. There’s the odd sporting or academic triumph, or a tragic battle with cancer. They only like us when we are excelling, or dying. No one’s interested in the between.”

On the same night Evan's mother marries local radio DJ 'Breakfast Tim', Evan's brand-new step-brother Lewis is found unconscious and terribly injured, the only survivor of a horrific car crash.

A media furore erupts, with the finger of blame pointed firmly at stoner, loner Lewis. Everyone else seems to think the crash was drugs-related, but Evan isn't buying it. With the help of her journalist father, Harry, she decides to find out what really happened that night.

As Evan delves deeper into the lives of the three teenagers who died in the crash, she uncovers some disturbing truths and a secret that threatens to tear her family - and the community - apart for ever...

Without a doubt one of Cat Clarke's best books!