Emma Smith-Barton is an author and teacher from south Wales. Her debut YA novel, The Million Pieces of Neena Gill, was published by Penguin Random House and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Award, the Branford Boase Award and the Romantic Novelist’s Association Debut Romantic Novel Award 2020.
She has a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Warwick, a PGCE and a Creative Writing MA from Bath Spa University. In 2023 she was a judge for the Wales Book of the Year Award and a Hay Festival Writer at Work. Her stories for adults have been published in magazines and anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.
'The Million Pieces of Neena Gill' by Emma Smith-Barton
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2020
Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award 2020
Shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Debut Romantic Novel Award 2020
Powerful, relatable and uplifting - Emily Barr, author of The One Memory of Flora Banks
How can I hold myself together, when everything around me is falling apart?
Neena's always been a good girl - great grades, parent-approved friends and absolutely no boyfriends.
But ever since her brother Akash left her, she's been slowly falling apart - and uncovering a new version of herself who is freer, but altogether more dangerous.
As her wild behaviour spirals more and more out of control, Neena's grip on her sanity begins to weaken too.
And when her parents announce not one but two life-changing bombshells, she finally reaches breaking point.
But as Neena is about to discover, when your life falls apart, only love can piece you back together.
