Adorkable
By (Author) Sarra Manning
Little, Brown Book Group
ATOM
29th May 2012
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
823.92
Short-listed for Romantic Novelists' Association Award 2013 (UK)
Paperback
400
Width 200mm, Height 130mm, Spine 27mm
274g
Jeane Smith is seventeen and has turned her self-styled dorkiness into an art form, a lifestyle choice and a profitable website and consultancy business. She writes a style column for a Japanese teen magazine and came number seven in The Guardian's 30 People Under 30 Who Are Changing The World.
And yet, in spite of the accolades, hundreds of Internet friendships and a cool boyfriend, she feels inexplicably lonely, a situation made infinitely worse when Michael Lee, the most mass-market, popular and predictably all-rounded boy at school tells Jeane of his suspicion that Jeane's boyfriend is secretly seeing his girlfriend.Michael and Jeane have NOTHING in common - she is cool and individual; he is the golden boy in an Abercrombie and Fitch T-shirt. So why can't she stop talking to himWitty, original and an up-to-date boy meets girl, boy hates girl, girl hates boy love story. . .a grown-up, truthful coming-of-age story.--The Daily Telegraph, -
Sarra Manning is a journalist and an author. She began her writing career in teen magazines and was Entertainment Editor of Just Seventeen before becoming the editor of Elle Girl. She lives in London.