3/5 Stars: ‘Toffee’ is a Young Adult, Poetic Contemporary by Sarah Crossan; ‘Toffee’ is a pain-filled story, but it is also hopeful and profoundly moving; laced with old hurts and small kindnesses, it’s a book that changes its reader for the better. ‘Toffee’, is told in verse, addressing several poignant and recurrent themes: belonging, identity, grief and trauma, and shaping one’s place in the world. Divided into short pieces, a page or two in length; each of these is as satisfying as a smoothed piece of sea glass, strung together to create a spectrum of pain and consolation. The sparse words reveal the artistry in every phrase. The book is saturated by the sense of secrecy.