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Sarah Crossan

Gone for Good

Hay Festival 2026, 

Join award-winning author Sarah Crossan as she introduces her YA thriller in verse, Gone for Good, and explores the question: What does it mean to be a ‘bad’ person? Discover how verse can make storytelling addictive and get Sarah’s best tips for reconnecting with reading as a teenager.

Gone for Good follows sixteen-year-old Connie, who is kidnapped in the middle of the night and taken to Silver Lake, a so-called ‘behaviour-modification programme’. But Silver Lake isn’t what it seems. It looks like a school but runs like a prison. Rules are absolute, and secrets are everywhere.

Dewch i ymuno â’r awdures Sarah Crossan, sydd wedi ennill sawl gwobr, wrth iddi gyflwyno ei nofel ddirgelwch newydd i Oedolion Ifanc, Gone for Good ar ffurf barddoniaeth, sy’n archwilio’r cwestiwn: Beth mae bod yn berson ‘drwg’ yn golygu? Dewch i ddarganfod sut y gall adrodd stori ar ffurf barddoniaeth fod mor bleserus fel eich bod chi eisiau clywed mwy, a gwrandewch ar awgrymiadau gorau Sarah ar sut i ddechrau darllen unwaith eto fel person ifanc.

Mae Gone for Good yn dilyn Connie, sy’n un ar bymtheg oed, ac sy’n cael ei herwgipio yng nghanol nos a’i hanfon i Silver Lake – rhaglen ‘addasu ymddygiad’ honedig. Ond dydy Silver Lake ddim fel beth mae’n edrych. Mae’n edrych fel ysgol ond mae’n cael ei redeg fel carchar. Mae’r rheolau’n cael eu gorfodi’n llwyr, ac mae cyfrinachau ym mhobman.

KS3/4 | CA3/4