Wholesale Hope against Hope

"I felt no guilt. If I was indeed going to the bad, he had sent me on my way." Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards 2020 Teen / Young Adult Book of the Year  It is 1921. Ireland has been at war with Britain for two years.  Communities are torn apart by bitter hatred —  and now a hard border splits the island.  Polly runs away to Helen's Hope hostel in Belfast,  a feminist space where young women live and work together —  a haven of tolerance and diversity in a fractured city.  But some people hate Helen's Hope and its progressive values. How can a few girls stand up to hatred — when some of it  comes from within their own walls?  And when the hostel is violently attacked, how can Polly keep hope alive?  Written by Sheena Wilkinson