Vendor
	Mohrbooks Literary Agency Sebastian Ritscher
Categories
Children’s, Teenage & Educational

TEN MILES ONE WAY

Patrick Downes

In this moving novel, Patrick Downes tells the story of a mind at the edge of unraveling, held together by love and acceptance.

Nest and Q walk through the city. Nest speaks and Q listens. Mile by mile, Nest tells Q about her life, her family, her past...and her Chimaera, the beast that preys on her mind and causes her to lose herself. Q knows only that his love for Nest runs deeper than the demon that plagues her thoughts, that he loves her in spite of—or perhaps because of—the personal battle she fights every day. Originally from New York City, Patrick Downes splits his time between the United States and Canada. His first book, Fell of Dark, received multiple starred reviews and was named to the New York Public Library’s 2015 Best Books for Teens list and to Publisher’s Weekly’s Best Summer Books of 2015 list. Patrick writes for all ages.

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Book Published 2017-03-21 by Philomel Books for Children

Comments

A loving but honest treatment of mental illness, these words will sing off the page and into your heart. No question: the world is a better place with Patrick Downes writing in it.

Downes subtly plumbs the depths of mental illness within the broader context of relationship and self-awareness.... An intricate, unusual love story for readers attuned to compassion.

Through bewitching prose, idiosyncratic detail, and the presentation of a mind simultaneously on the edge of epiphany and exhaustion, breakthrough and breakdown, Downes crafts a tender portrayal of both mental illness and love itself. Part romance, part poetry, and part monologue, perceptive teens will devour this one.