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Khatijah Balu Showcase

“They decided he fell.

It makes sense now. Walking to the school and seeing it from this distance shows how high that drop is. A four-storey, thirty-foot imaginary line runs vertically against the building. I’m drawn to the partition that separates this area from the rest of Strytham.” 

From ‘Lewis Didn’t Fall’– included in the showcase

“Lewis Didn’t Fall is a murder-mystery thriller for Teen/YA readers, set in a British comprehensive school. With a South-Asian protagonist thrown into a relentless investigation to find a murderer, the manuscript submitted to TLC was initially a couple of building blocks that needed a blueprint to develop into a fleshed-out, more developed version of itself.” From the Introduction