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In Destination Anywhere, Sara Barnard explores love, life and friendship in this exquisite tale of the lengths one girl will go to to change her story. Peyton is pushed to the limit. She’s been bullied mercilessly at school. At sixth form college all she wants it to have friends like everyone else.
But it seems that for her having friends comes at a cost. When those friends let her down in the worst possible way she decides to leave everything behind. She buys a one-way ticket to Vancouver on her dad’s credit card and sets off with her sketchpad and backpack to find happiness. But is escaping to Canada going to bring her friends – or just loneliness?
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About Destination Anywhere
Sometimes you have to leave your life behind to find your place in the world. After five years at secondary school spent without any friends, Peyton King starts sixth form college determined that things will be different. Whatever happens, she will make friends at any cost.
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Destination Anywhere Synopsis
Sometimes you have to leave your life behind to find your place in the world. After five years at secondary school spent without any friends, Peyton King starts sixth form college determined that things will be different. Whatever happens, she will make friends at any cost.
When she finds the friends she's always dreamed of, including an actual boyfriend, she's happier than she's ever been. But when they let her down in the worst way, Peyton is left no better off than when she started. Now Peyton knows the only chance she has of finding happiness is to look for it somewhere else.
Her life may feel small, but it doesn't have to be. With nothing but her sketchpad and a backpack, she buys a one-way ticket and gets on a plane. . .
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781529003581 |
| Publication date: |
15th April 2021 |
| Author: |
Sara Barnard |
| Publisher: |
Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
309 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Young Adult Fiction
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Sara Barnard Press Reviews
I absolutely loved this coming-of-age story of one lost girl's quest to find herself - The Bookseller, Editor's Choice
Praise for Beautiful Broken Things;
A moving, exhilarating YA novel about teen friendship... any reader who wants warmth, hilarity, vivid highs, lows and heartbreak should grab this book, which proves that feminist doesn't mean humourless and female-focussed doesn't mean lightweight. - Metro
Teenage girls are a mystery - even when you've been one! This tale of three such creatures - Caddy, Rosie and Suzanne - attempts to unravel their secrets and the result is quite something. - Heat Magazine
If you loved Jennifer Niven's 'All the Bright Places' this is a book you need to get your hands on. . . This is a book where you just love the characters, you ache at the complexities of their feelings, you read with baited breath, just wanting what might be impossible, for everything to be ok. - Maximum Pop
This book is exquisite, and exactly what YA needs. I still can't get over how REAL this story was, every single part of it was perfectly realised. It was so sophisticated in how it was written, with beautiful BEAUTIFUL prose . . . I am so excited to see what Sara writes next. This author is one to watch! -- Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet?
I felt like I was living this book. -- Zoella
About Sara Barnard
Sara Barnard lives in Brighton and does all her best writing on trains. She is a bestselling author of seven novels for young adults. Her debut Beautiful Broken Things was a Zoella Bookclub pick and she went on to win the YA Book Prize with her third novel, Goodbye, Perfect. This Song Is About Us is her second novel with Walker Books. Sara believes that sad books are good for the soul, and happy books lift the heart. She hopes to write lots of books that do both.
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