Evie and Maryam’s Family Tree

Evie and Maryam’s Family Tree won the Guppy Open Submission in 2023 and the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize for Younger Readers in 2026.

Evie and Maryam are in the same class at school, uneasily thrown together on a school project at the start of a new term. The two girls don’t think they have much in common – Maryam feels like an outsider; Evie is getting restless in her group of popular kids. But when the two girls each discover they’ve found identical mysterious folders containing documents in a secret language, they uncover a connection that goes back two generations, all the way to India, to partition, and to two best friends who inspired each other more than they ever know.

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Evie and Maryam’s Little Lies

Evie and Maryam are back in their second adventure! Maryam is thrilled to be awarded a scholarship to an esteemed boarding school but when she arrives, the other pupils are unwelcoming and she feels totally isolated. Evie is also struggling back at home, as the play she and Maryam wrote about their shared family history is being judged by an award-winning theatre director who takes an immediate dislike to the subject of India and partition. She and Maryam decide that they need to do something drastic - but before long the two girls have created a web of lies which get out of control... will they ever find their way back to the truth?

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