In 2004 Tabitha Suzuma left classroom teaching to divide her time between writing and tutoring. She continued her education through distance learning and went on to study French Literature at King's College London.Īfter graduating, Tabitha trained as a primary school teacher and whilst teaching full-time, wrote her first novel.Ī NOTE OF MADNESS tells the story of seventeen-year-old Flynn, a piano prodigy who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Aged fourteen, Tabitha left school against her parents' wishes. 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. She attended a French school in the UK and grew up bilingual. Tabitha Suzuma was born in London, the eldest of five children. As the novel careens toward an explosive and shocking finale, only one thing is certain: a love this devastating has no happy ending. And yet, they cannot stop what feels so incredibly right. They know their relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. Their clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love. And the stress of their lives-and the way they understand each other so completely-has also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be. As defacto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. He is seventeen gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future. She is pretty and talented - sweet sixteen and never been kissed.

Forbidden book by tabitha suzuma