Gustav can’t face going to school and for the past few months he’s mostly been home-schooled. His parents are at their wits’ end and, in desperation, they sign Gustav up to a support group for young people who are school refusers too. There he meets Julia, a girl with zero boundaries, who tells him about a place where you don’t have to feel like an idiot all the time. She calls this place The Garage.

When Gustav visits The Garage he discovers a new and fascinating world on the margins of society where the kids are just like him. Just as Gustav is regaining his self-belief, he realises that he is also caught up in a web of lies that is impossible to escape.

No Lies Can Save Me Now is a compelling YA novel about being an outsider and belonging – and just how hard it can be to do something as simple as going to school.