Indigo

My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece, Paperback/Annabel Pitcher

This powerful debut and winner of the 2012 Branford Boase Award depicts the aftermath of a girl's death in a terrorist attack, told from the perspective of her ten-year-old brother who embarks on a friendship with a girl called Sunya but attempts to keep it from his father who has been turned to drink and hate by the family's experience.