Heartstopper Vol. 2 | Alice OsemanNick and Charlie are best friends. Nick knows Charlie's gay, and Charlie is sure that Nick isn't. But love works in surprising ways, and Nick is discovering all kinds of things about his friends, his family and himself. By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper is about friendship, loyalty and mental illness. It encompasses all the small stories of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of

With a cast of drag queens and sailors

fame - and stepping into who we truly are with strength

tenderness

penniless and with nowhere to go

And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society

politicians and private corporations that own England

as each decade passes

flying into their dreams

Ged witnesses true magic and the ancient ways submit to the forces of evil and death

all the small things that made Leah hers - only remind Miri of what she stands to lose

When she suddenly disappears without saying goodbye

Two freedom riders take a bus that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them