Toffee

一個盡力要忘記的女孩，遇見一個努力想記得的女人

Allison逃出家裡，遠離會對她家暴的父親。她無處可去，後來找到了一個看起來像棄屋的房子安身，但這個房子並非空屋，裡面住著一位患有失智症的年長女士Marla。Marla把Allison誤認為自己的老朋友Toffee，而對Allison來説，她早已習慣隱藏真正的自己，依別人所期待的樣子生活，因此，為了要有一個安身地點，Toffee就是Allison的新身份。

但隨著Allison與Marla相處的時間越長，Allison發現Marla的情況，是多麽需要一個朋友在旁，而這對Allison而言，也需要開始思考，到底「家」是什麼？家人又是個什麼樣的關係？而最重要的是…自己是誰？


The astonishing new novel from the incomparable, multi-award-winning and Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan.

I am not who I say I am,
and Marla isn't who she thinks she is.

I am a girl trying to forget.
She is a woman trying to remember.

Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly woman named Marla, with dementia, lives there - and she mistakes Allison for an old friend from her past called Toffee.

Allison is used to hiding who she really is, and trying to be what other people want her to be. And so, Toffee is who she becomes. After all, it means she has a place to stay. There are worse places she could be.

But as their bond grows, and Allison discovers how much Marla needs a real friend, she begins to ask herself - where is home? What is a family? And most importantly, who am I, really?