Philippa Cameron

The Day We Are Born (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Elle is 16, she's sweet and funny, she's got a best friend, Libby, who despite her bad temper and foul mouth somehow complements Elle, her parents are loving and supportive, and a boy called Sam appears to want to be more than just friends. A perfect life. There's just one problem. Elle thinks she's supposed to be dead.

When she announced this to her parents three years earlier, things moved swiftly: doctor's appointments, weekly therapy sessions, a fridge filled with mood foods and, finally, a prescription for antidepressants.

None of this really helps Elle; her days still seem to be a coin toss of light and dark but she manages her condition as best she can by being brave and tough and funny.

Best friend Libby is the only one who truly gets Elle, but sometimes even she's too much. And Elle doesn't have the energy for a boyfriend; she needs all she's got to get through the day. But the boy is Sam. Does she even have a choice? Because something weird keeps happening every time they're in the same room...

The story follows Elle over a week as she and Libby plot how they're going to get to a music festival to see their favorite band. They face several obstacles, not least of which is persuading Elle's parents to let her out of their sight. It's not really her parents' fault that they've become a little fearful after one, well, maybe two incidences that were misconstrued - Elle swears - as possible suicide attempts. But Elle needs them to let her go - and she doesn't mean only to the concert.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Philippa Cameron
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311831798
• Artikelnr.: 70919537

Autorenporträt

By night I'm the writer of Young Adult Fiction. By day, I am the head of the media center (very fancy name for a librarian) and a teacher of information and digital literacy at an all-girl high school. This means I am a prolific reader of Young Adult books; I also love general contemporary fiction as well as memoirs.

In my previous life as a university lecturer, I corrupted young minds in the English and Media Studies Department. In another life as a journalist, I was an editor and a feature writer, covering mainly lifestyle pieces, and I wrote occasional humorous newspaper columns. At least, I thought they were funny. And so did my brother's mother-in-law.

In my current life, I have husband who's a geek in denial, two daughters who have inherited both their parents' love of reading, and two Guinea pigs that appeared in our home while I was away at a conference whose existence I don't acknowledge to my family. The Guinea pigs' existence. Not the conference's. (Update: One of the Guineas has gone to Guinea heaven. It wasn't me. I swear.)