Girl (Nearly) 16: Absolute Torture (Girl, 15 and Girl, 16)

Girl (Nearly) 16: Absolute Torture (Girl, 15 and Girl, 16)

by SueLimb (Author)

Synopsis

Disaster! Jess tried to hide her horror. Her mum frowned. 'What's wrong, sweetheart? It's what you've always wanted!' Jess's mum has finally given in and arranged a trip to see Jess's dad. But this is so the wrong moment: Jess has just got it together with Fred, and in an incredibly romantic way he has scraped money together to get them both tickets to the hottest music festival ...but instead Jess is going on a road trip with her mum and her grandmother (and her grandfather, but he doesn't quite count as he is ashes in an urn). Jess is keen to keep in touch with Fred by text while she is away, but after a while he just stops responding. And her best friend Flora is now going to the exact same music festival Jess was supposed to go to! Jess can't help her paranoia about Fred working overtime. If Jess isn't careful, her worries are going to completely spoil her much-wanted visit to her dad. But when she gets there, it turns out that everybody has a surprise for each other. Needless to say, some work out better than others ...In this sequel Sue Limb has surpassed herself. The writing is still fresh, funny and effervescent, but at the same time Sue has captured the difficult, prickly but, above all, loving relationship between a daughter and her parents.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 04 Jan 2010

ISBN 10: 1408801981
ISBN 13: 9781408801987
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
Book Overview: Newly rejacketed to create a strong Sue Limb brand Sales of over 60,000 of the prequel, Girl, 15: Charming But Insane; listed in The Bookseller listing of top 10 teenage weekly sales Accurate and funny portrayals of the difficulties of family life ... and integrating boyfriends

Media Reviews
'For those who can't get enough of (Girl, 15's) world, there is ... Zoe and Chloe. The obsessions, embarrassments, disasters and joys of young teen life are captured with pitch-perfect comic timing' The Times 'In Girl, 15, Limb is on sparkling form. Amidst the slapstick, Limb weaves such themes as friendship and rivalry, the importance or not of appearances and so forth ... this is pink lit that girls (and boys with a copy in a plain wrapper) will love' Books for Keeps 'Very funny and sharply observed, this is the kind of book no teenage girl should be without' The Bookseller 'Hilarious and spot-on how it captures those boyfriend blues' Mizz
Author Bio
Sue is the bestselling author of the Girl, 15 series for Bloomsbury, as well as the Girls series, both for teens. Her other children's books include Big and Little, Me Jane, Big Trouble and Mr Loopy and Mrs Snoopy. Come Back, Grandma was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize. Sue lives on a remote organic farm near Nailsworth in Gloucestershire.