2010 Literature Award

Desperate Measures

Laura Summers

Laura Summers produced this critically acclaimed first novel after realising there were no heroines with learning disabilities in the stories she read with her book-loving daughter.

Regarded by many as "affecting, honest and totally gripping" this tale of a pair of twins - one of whom was brain damaged at birth - follows their lives after their foster parents can't cope and the family will have to be split up. This is a moving and life affirming story for young people.