Yours From the Tower
Age 12+
Romance & Relationships Stories
Three very different young women make their way through late Victorian England - can they each find true happiness?
Tirzah, Louisa and Polly are best friends who’ve left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. Polly is teaching in an orphanage. Louisa is looking for a rich husband at the London Season. And Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters, they share their hopes, their frustrations, their dramas and their romances. Can these three very different young women find happiness?
Creators
Sally Nicholls grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, and after school, travelled the world, working for a period at a Red Cross hospital in Japan. Sally's first novel, Ways to Live Forever, won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and she has been shortlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Costa Children's Book Award, and the Carnegie Medal, twice. She lives in Liverpool.
Reviews
I loved this book. An unputdownable friendship story told in letters so vivid and immersive that I felt like joining in with the correspondence.
This is simply a heavenly book that anyone 10+ will want to lose themselves in on cold, autumnal nights
Book of the Month, The Bookseller
Sally Nicholls is brilliant: her writing reads like silk
Emma Carroll
Immersive… one of 2023’s biggest new books
Guardian
Against a backdrop of feminist frustration, Nicholls balances their contrasting characters with delightful wit and warmth. I loved it.
Daily Mail
