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TAG by STEPHEN MAY, wins Media Wales Readers’ Award at Wales Book of the Year Ceremony
A big thank you to everyone who voted for TAG, which last night scooped first place in the Reader’s Award at a the Wales Book of the Year. The opinion of readers is what counts most for Cinnamon Press and for Stephen and it’s wonderful to have our view of this fantastic novel confirmed by the people who matter.
TAG tells the story of Mistyann Rutherford who is fifteen, unpredictable, unreliable and violent. She’s also gifted, and now she’s on her way to a residential course in Wales. An American psychologist wants Mistyann - and various other strange and talented children – to ‘unlock their potential.’Part bleakly comic confession,
part twisted romance, TAG is full of wit, drama, memorable characters, and an eye for the absurdities of the way we live now. TAG is a sensational, poignant and very funny debut novel.
Stephen May lives in West Yorkshire with his two youngest children and is the author of two well received stage plays Back The World (2003) and Still Waiting For Everything (2005), both of which have toured nationally. He has also written for TV and his second novel Life! Death! Prizes! will appear next year.
Praise for TAG
‘…a compelling and very readable first novel. May writes with a fresh, new voice that skips lightly between the two main characters even when the storyline gets very dark…’
Sue Brickay, Bedfordshire on Sunday
‘Very funny and politically resonant...’
Katie Popperwell, Manchester Evening News.
“Though TAG is not a teenage novel any more than Catcher In The Rye is, the vivacity and iconoclasm of Mistyann will surely particularly appeal to young adult readers in the way that Holden Caulfield did, while Jonathan Diamond’s weary stoicism in the face of a world he is beginning not to understand should resonate with all ages.
Ray French , author of Going Under.
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