PERSIST

There’s a woman who visits Marianne every day. She’s desperate and upset, but Marianne is unable to reach out to her – she’s in a coma. A powerful drama about a mother clinging to hope and a daughter trying to find her way back. A haunting, powerful drama from Carnegie Medalist Melvin Burgess. A girl in a coma. A desperate mother. Marianne has been absent from her own life for so long that even her mother''s unwavering faith is starting to tremble. But Marianne, floating in her own world, is starting to remember who she is - and the sad woman that visits every day. Can they both persist long enough to find a way back to one another?