''One'' is a 2015

children's novel Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's ...

by Irish author

Sarah Crossan Sarah Crossan is an Irish author. She is best known for her books for young adults, including ''Apple and Rain'' and ''One'', for which she has won several awards. Biography Crossan graduated from Warwick University in 1999 with a degree in Phi ...

. The book was published by

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on 27 August 2015. The novel won the Carnegie Medal for 2016. It was also nominated for the

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis The (German Youth Literature Award) is an annual award established in 1956 by the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth to recognise outstanding works of children's and young adult literature. It is Germany's only ...

in its German translation. The plot of the book is about the life and survival of Tippi and Grace, two sisters who are ischiopagus tripus

conjoined twins Conjoined twins – sometimes popularly referred to as Siamese twins – are twins joined ''in utero''. A very rare phenomenon, the occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 49,000 births to 1 in 189,000 births, with a somewhat higher incidence ...

. The book was written following Crossan's research on twins and the book refers to past examples of conjoined twins. The book is written in a poetic format, unlike most other children's novels. It focuses on themes of identity and loss.

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2015 Irish novels 2015 children's books Irish young adult novels Carnegie Medal in Literature winning works Verse novels Twins in fiction Fictional conjoined twins Bloomsbury Publishing books {{2010s-child-novel-stub