The award celebrates contemporary fiction for teenagers, and is judged by a mixed panel of adults and teenagers.
Amanda Craig, chair of the judging panel commented that "it made the judges laugh, cry and debate its contents with passion; a striking mixture of thriller, science fiction and literary tour de force, it's influenced by writers as diverse as Laurence Sterne and Ursula le Guin, and should appeal to a wide readership."
The book has also won the Guardian Children's Fiction prize this year.
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