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Zusatztext A laugh out loud read. A heart-warming tale about two teenage friends Informationen zum Autor Dawn O'Porter is a broadcaster, novelist and journalist who lives in Los Angeles with her husband Chris, two sons, cat Lilu and dog Potato. She has made numerous documentaries about all sorts of things: polygamy, childbirth, Geisha, body image, breast cancer and even the movie Dirty Dancing. Dawn is obsessed with vintage clothing and presented This Old Thing on C4, trying to convert high-streetaholics to the way of old threads. Goose, the sequel to Paper Aeroplanes, was published in 2014 and Dawn has published two novels for adults, The Cowsand So Lucky. She is highly prolific on Twitter and Instagram (@hotpatooties). Klappentext 'Anyone who has ever been a teenage girl will love this book.' Caroline FlackIt is 1994 and fifteen-year-old Gurnsey schoolgirls Renee and Flo are not meant to be friends. Thoughtful, introspective Flo couldn't be more different to extroverted, sexually curious Renee. But what they have in common runs deep. Loneliness, frustration, and the longing to escape from their dysfunctional families...Fifteen is an age when anything can happen, life stretches out before you. Where every happiness feels like heaven. And every betrayal the end of the world. For Renee and Flo, it's the year they become themselves. Funny, touching and packed with cultural references, this is a must for anyone who has experienced the joy - and pain - of teenage friendship Grazia Dawn O'Porter's first novel is just as brilliant as you would expect ... Funny, sad and incredibly poignant, it's the novel you wish you'd read at 15 Stylist Dawn O'Porter's debut novel is a treat that can be enjoyed by all ages' Now O'Porter perfectly captures the sometimes ludicrous complexities of adolescence, and everyone should relate to this heartbreakingly funny depiction of friendship and loss. The Irish Times Leseprobe I take my place on the front bench of the science lab. A few weeks ago we had been dissecting pigs' trotters and all the vegetarians were huddled in a corner trying not to look. I thought it would be funny to flick a bit of trotter at them from the end of my ruler. As it turned out, it wasn't very funny. I only meant it as a joke but it landed inside Kerry Bowden's pencil case and she screamed like someone had run over her foot. Vegetarians are so dramatic. What's it all about anyway? I mean, I respect animals, but I also respect the food chain, and one of the few pleasures I have living with Nana and Pop is that once a week I'm allowed to have a tin of Chicken in White Wine Sauce with a pouch of Uncle Ben's rice. I have the whole tin, in a bowl, poured on top of the rice and I sprinkle so much salt on it that not all of it dissolves. The reason I love the Chicken in White Wine Sauce so much is because Nana gives it to me while Pop is at the snooker hall on Thursdays, and she lets me eat it with a spoon sitting on the floor next to the heating vent, because that is my favourite place. That fifteen minutes once a week is my idea of heaven. Not only does tinned Chicken in White Wine Sauce taste like the most delicious thing ever - with the possible exception of Wotsits - but Nana only has to heat it up, so even she can't ruin it. Zusammenfassung Where HONEYBEE's Renée and Flo first become friends. I just can't imagine me without you ... It's the mid-1990s, and fifteen year-old Guernsey schoolgirls, Renée and Flo, are not really meant to be friends....
