Fire Colour One

A bold and brilliant novel about love, lies and redemption, from award-winning author, Jenny Valentine - one of the greatest YA voices of her generation. Iris's father, Ernest, is at the end of his life and she hasn't even met him. Her best friend, Thurston, is somewhere on the other side of the world. Everything she thought she knew is up in flames. Now her mother has declared war and means to get her hands on Ernest's priceless art collection. But Ernest has other ideas. There are things he wants Iris to know after he's gone. And the truth has more than one way of coming to light. A father and daughter reconnect after a life spent apart to find their mutual love of art isnt the only thing they share. Sixteen-year-old Iris itches constantly for the strike of a match. But when shes caught setting one too many fires, shes whisked away to London before she can get arrestedat least thats the story her mother tells. Mounting debt actually drove them out of LA, and its greed that brings them to a home Iris doesnt recognize, where her millionaire fathera man shes never metlives. Though not for much longer. Iriss father is dying, and her mother is determined to claim his lifes fortune, including his priceless art collection. Forced to live with him as part of an exploitive scheme, Iris soon realizes her father is far different than the man shes been schooled to hate, and everything she thought she knewabout her father and herselfis suddenly unclear. There may be hidden beauty in Iriss uncertain past, and future, if only she can see beyond the flames. Iris' far Ernest er ved slutten av sitt liv, og hun har ikke engang møtt ham. Hennes bestevenn Thurston er et eller annet sted på den andre siden av kloden. Alt hun trodde hun visste begynner å vakle. Nå har moren erklært krig og forsøker å få klørne sine i Ernests uvurderlige kunstsamling. Men Ernest har andre tanker. Det er ting han ønsker at Iris skal vite etter at han er borte. Og sannheten har mer enn én måte å komme frem i lyset på. En young adult-roman om kjærlighet, løgner og tilgivelse, fra den prisbelønte forfatteren Jenny Valentine