''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. The book was published by
Bloomsbury Publishing on 27 August 2015.
The novel won the
Carnegie Medal for 2016. It was also nominated for the
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 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 ''Uterus, 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 in ...
. 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.
References
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