Suddenly, Flynn finds himself destroying everything he once cherished - his talent for playing, his first major concert opportunity, his best friend Harry, and even Jennah, when strangely, she seems the only one to understand. And Flynn finds himself feeling increasingly awkward around Jennah, whose presence fills him with a painful ache he dare not acknowledge, even to himself. The searing highs and suicidal lows of his everyday life begin to threaten his future career as a concert pianist, as well as alienate his two best friends, Harry and Jennah, who just want to help but are progressively shocked and upset by Flynn's erratic behaviour. She has now written six YA novels, all published by Penguin Random House.Ī NOTE OF MADNESS is Tabitha's first YA novel, and tells the story of seventeen-year-old Flynn Laukonen, a piano prodigy studying at the Royal College of Music in London, who begins to have increasingly extreme mood swings and is eventually diagnosed with the mental illness bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression. A few years later, Tabitha left classroom teaching, and ever since, has divided her time between tutoring and writing. After graduating, Tabitha trained as a primary school teacher and it was while she was teaching full-time that wrote her first novel. She continued her education through distance learning and went on to study French Literature at King's College London. She got a job she loved, working at a centre for children with cerebral palsy. However, she hated school and would sit at the back of the class and write stories, which she got away with because her teachers thought she was taking notes! Aged fourteen, Tabitha left school against her parents' wishes. She attended a French school in the UK and grew up bilingual. Tabitha Suzuma was born in London, the eldest of five children.

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