Noughts & Crosses · book 2

Knife edge (Noughts & Crosses #2)

About this book

A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the Noughts & Crosses trilogy.Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father - Callum. Eaten up with bitterness, Callum's brother Jude, blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered. Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?

Noughts & Crosses · 4 books

In publication order
  1. 1 Noughts & Crosses 2001
  2. 2 Knife Edge 2003 This book
  3. 3 Checkmate 2005
  4. 4 Double Cross 2008
All 4 in order

Subjects

  • anglais (langue)
  • children's fiction
  • despair
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • grief
  • grief, fiction
  • juvenile fiction
  • lectures et morceaux choisis pour adultes
  • prejudices
  • prejudices, fiction
  • race discrimination
  • race relations
  • race relations, fiction
  • racially mixed children
  • racially mixed children -- juvenile fiction
  • racism
  • readers
  • readers (adult)
  • revenge