TAPE is an outstanding debut. Told with crackling prose, shimmering with humour and deeply moving, it will haunt anyone who reads it...Record a voice and it lasts forever...In 1993, Ryan records a diary on an old tape.

He talks about his mother's death, about his dreams, about his love for a new girl at school who doesn't even know he exists.In 2013, Ameliah moves in with her grandmother after her parents die.

There, she finds a tape in the spare room. A tape with a boy's voice on it - a voice she can't quite hear, but which seems to be speaking to her.Ryan and Ameliah are connected by more than just a tape.This is their story.