"No one captures the importance of friendship and the turmoil of coming of age better than Meg Rosoff"
Into a brief, hot summer slice of late adolescence, award-winning Meg Rosoff brilliantly unpacks a friendship which leads to a sequence of rollercoaster and heady experiences for eighteen year old Beth.
Newly arrived in New York to take up a journalism internship, Beth is immediately swept up by her fellow interns including Eddie, an attractive, talented and rich New Yorker who invites her to move into her parents beautiful and comfortable home. Eager to leave the cockroach infested apartment, her first home on arrival, Beth is entranced by Eddie, whose extraordinary life has already ensured her familiarity with all the experiences - sex, drugs, drink - that are new to Beth.
Their heady days together appear to be a reflection of the best friendship in the world. But is it?
As the summer gets hotter, the drinks get stronger and her sense of what she should be doing gets more confused, Beth begins to realise that Eddie is not the friend she seems to be. No one captures the importance of friendship and the turmoil of coming of age better than Meg Rosoff.
From the incomparable Meg Rosoff, bestselling author of How I Live Now and The Great Godden, comes an alluring coming-of-age tale about the summer that changes everything.
From the incomparable Meg Rosoff, bestselling author of How I Live Now and The Great Godden, comes an alluring coming-of-age tale about the summer that changes everything. New York City.
Friends Like These is aimed at readers aged 12 and over.
Friends Like These features in the following genres: Young Adult Fiction, Books of the Month, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: First / new experiences and growing up / coming of age, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Dating, relationships, romance and love, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Recommendations, Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics, Fiction: narrative themes, Fiction, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Relationships (non-family / groups)
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Friends Like These was written by Meg Rosoff and published by Bloomsbury YA an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Friends Like These has 256 pages
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