The Baby, Lisa Drakeford's first novel, was shortlisted for the (London) Times / Chicken House children’s fiction competition 2014. One of her top ten Young Adult books about teen pregnancy, as shared at the Guardian:Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
I studied this at A-level. Thanks to a very clever English teacher it was not forever ruined. Tess’s tragedy is timeless and terrible. A





