"I think
Maybe
Part of knowing yourself
Is letting yourself
Be known."

The long-awaited follow-up to the award-winning
The Deepest Breath

A joyful exploration of identity and new beginnings
by the critically-acclaimed Meg Grehan.

Publishing 1st May 2025: Available for pre-order.

Stevie, Chloe and Andrew are starting secondary school, and everything is new and scary.

There are new people, new classrooms, new challenges. Stevie and Chloe know that they like each other and their afterschool group, The Rainbow Club. But Andrew's pulling away and the friends are worried.

They thought they knew who they were together but now they're not so sure.

Praise for The Deepest Breath

‘Incredibly artful, incredibly tender’ – Deirdre Sullivan, author of Tangleweed and Brine

‘Gorgeously written, emotionally complex and endlessly kind’ – Moïra Fowley-Doyle, author of Spellbook of the Lost and Found and All the Bad Apples

‘On the surface a quiet, gentle tale … But it is powerful in its simplicity: “I want to touch her hair,” Stevie blurts out, then tries to figure out what her mum’s raised eyebrows mean; later she goes to the library to find books that will explain things to her, but can find “nothing / About a princess and a princess / Or a queen and a queen / Nothing at all”. It’s a fierce reminder of the need for books that show readers of all kinds of love, as well as being this kind of book itself, especially for younger teens and pre-teens.’ – The Irish Times

‘A seamless narrative. Grehan’s verse flows like water, and her scenes – some tense, some thoughtful, and each slipping easily into the next – patiently follow the rises and falls of a young girl’s emotional life.’ – Gay Community News

‘I spent most of this beautifully written verse novel blinking back tears. Grehan has created one of those rare gems, a book that feels so utterly real and involving that the reader lives every page with the main character. Written with such heart and tenderness, after closing the last page, I felt genuinely distraught to have finished it. Amazing to think it’s only Grehan’s second book.’ – Sarah Webb, The Irish Independent

Meg Grehan is the author of five novels-in-verse, they are The Space Between, The Deepest Breath, Baby Teeth, The Lonely Book and The Brightest Star (May 2025). Her books have won two Children’s Books Ireland Awards and been nominated for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, An Post Irish Book Awards and the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing She lives in County Donegal in the north-west of Ireland where she spends her time writing, reading poetry and hugging trees.