Leila Sales grew up outside Boston, USA, and graduated from the University of Chicago. Now she lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works as an editor for Penguin Children's Books. Her books This Song Will Save Your Life, Tonight the Streets Are Ours and If You Don't Have Anything Nice To Say are published by Macmillan Children's Books. She has also written two previous novels, Mostly Good Girls and Past Perfect.
Should be required reading for anyone using social media...Topical without being preachy, this is a plea for empathy in a world increasingly prone to knee-jerk outrage. -- Claire Hennessy * Irish Times, Best YA novels of 2018 * A nuanced approach to how the internet encourages the dehumanization of users gives this novel its realistic tone and serves as a strong warning to teens (and their parents) * Publishers Weekly *