28th June, 2016

Six Pounds Eight Ounces Shortlisted for Rubery Book Award

Rhian Elizabeth’s coming-of-age novel Six Pounds Eight Ounces is among those shortlisted for this year’s International Rubery Book Award. The award is the longest established book award based in the UK for independent and self-published books. The overall winner and category winners will be announced in the coming weeks.
See the full list of shortlisted titles on the Rubery Book Award Website.
About Six Pounds Eight Ounces:
A wonderful voice straight from the Welsh valleys threads through this novel of friendship and alienation.  We follow Hannah from the age of six to her troubled teenage years, through school fights, family breakdown and loss.  It’s easy to sympathise with the characters as they slip into destructive relationships, like those with the magnetic Marley and Billy, but there’s plenty of good humour, too.  The characters are lively and believable and the vulnerability of teenage relationships is beautifully conveyed.  ‘My right side is cold without her walking next to it,’  Hannah says about her lost friend.