Winner of Los
Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award) 2003
Winner - Whitbread Adult Book of the year 2003
(UK)
Winner of Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2003 (UK)
Winner of Book Trust Teenage Fiction Award 2003
(UK)
Longlisted for Britain’s prestigious Man Booker Award (UK)
Winner of Commonwealth Writers Regional Prize
(Eurasia) for Best First Book 2004 (NZ)
Selected as one of ten adult books that will
appeal to teen readers by the Alex Award Committee of the
Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the
American Library Association (ALA) 2004