Read an exclusive interview for Waterstones with Patrice Lawrence where the author talks about life for children in care, her love of Hackney and how, when it comes to writers of colour, the publishing industry still has a long way to go. ‘What a book! Such a gripping, gritty storyline, with such wonderful, believable characters. Her debut novel, Orangeboy, won the Waterstones Book Prize for Older Readers and the YA Book Prize, and her second. Orangeboy is the stunning debut from London-based author Patrice Lawrence who finds that music often seeps into her writing and shares her writing space with a cat called Stormageddon. Marlon’s out of choices – can he become the person he never wanted to be, to protect everyone he loves?Ī young man has an impossible choice to make, in this powerful urban story that will challenge preconceptions and melt the hardest heart. They’re after the mysterious Mr Orange, and they’re going to use Marlon to get to him. So far, it’s been easy, but when a date ends in tragedy, Marlon finds himself hunted. Sixteen-year-old Marlon has made his mum a promise – he’ll never follow his big brother, Andre, down the wrong path. I was the kid people looked straight through. Not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough for anyone to notice me. But underneath was a bass beat, thump, thump, thump, like my heart. It was the usual crappy mashup, The Beatles mixed with Frank Sinatra mixed with Michael Jackson. Winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for Older Children, 2017.All that noise was fighting with the music and the music was fighting with itself. Overall, this is a great book that I would definitely read again. It has mysteries, friendship and parts that might even make you feel a tingling in your eye. I think this book is a great reminder that sometimes you must be brave to protect the ones you love. “Don’t admit, don’t deny, shut your mouth like the FBI” “Not cool enough, not clever enough, not street enough for anyone to notice me.
He swore not to, but what if he has to? Marlon has to decide how far he will go to save the ones he loves, whether they remember you or not. harvey from Year 6, Bessacarr Primary School: it is a brill book and cool to read. He is being hunted by gangs and is breaking his mother’s trust the more he tries to help. So far we have received 3 reviews of Orangeboy. Orange and they will stop at nothing to get what they want.
When a date ends in disaster, Marlon is left to pick up the pieces and in serious danger. Sixteen-year-old Marlon has made his mum a promise he’ll never follow his big brother, Andre, down the wrong path. When he was younger, his older brother Andre went down the wrong path, a path that Marlon swore to his mum never to take. Patrice Lawrence’s Orangeboy is about a sixteen-year-old boy called Marlon.
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