One of the pens behind the press
Wren Ashby
Young adult · Found families · First love and the fallout
Wren writes teenagers who sound like teenagers: quick, funny and thoroughly armoured, right up until they are not. Chosen families, first loves and the summer everything changed, in books that make you laugh for eighty pages and then quietly take the floor out from under you.
3 books in print · 11 journal pieces
Books by Wren Ashby
Wren Ashby in the journal
- Why the summer you were sixteen still feels bigger than the ones that came after
- The unremarkable things that turn friends into family
- The books you read at fifteen are reading you back
- The Nobel Prize in Literature is announced on Thursday, and I will be thinking about a different shelf
- In defence of the funny one
- You asked how to make them sound real
- The heartbreak nobody sends a card for
- A list for the last week of the holidays
- A reader asks why it is always summer
- Notes from the back of a school hall
- The armour and the crack in it