"Fractured families, First love, Fresh starts"
16-year-old Holly feels like an outsider, except when she’s swimming at her local pool: “Under the surface, deep in the blue-lit water, nobody can see me. There’s nobody to judge the clothes I wear, or the way my hair frizzles”. It’s at the pool she meets Ed, who’s “not like the boys at school who are either geeky or cocky and smart-arsed and think they’re all that.
He’s different”. While romantic feelings, evoked in all their dizzying wonder, swell poolside, at home the seas are stormier. Struggling with depression, Holly’s mum has “become so inward-looking that she hasn’t a clue what I do with my time”. But as Holly’s home-life begins to brighten, Ed reveals that he’s grappling with a serious domestic situation of his own.
Warm-hearted, highly readable and romantic, with the bleaker elements of both teenagers’ lives handled with a sensitive lightness of touch, readers will undoubtedly root for Holly and Ed to find their happy ever after.
My Box-Shaped Heart is a powerful story of an unlikely friendship from Rachael Lucas, author of The State of Grace.
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My Box-Shaped Heart is a powerful story of an unlikely friendship from Rachael Lucas, author of The State of Grace. Holly's mum is a hoarder, and she is fed up with being picked on at school for being weird . . . and having the wrong clothes . . . and sticking out.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed My Box-Shaped Heart and determined it is suitable for children aged 13-18 years old
My Box-Shaped Heart features in the following genres: Stories about Family and Friends, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for Young Adults, Recommendations, PSHE: Bullying and Discrimination, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), PSHE: Divorce, PSHE: Family Issues, PSHE: Self-Awareness, Self-Esteem and Wellbeing, Recommended Children's eBooks, Books Reviewed by our Reader Review Panels, Romance / Relationship Stories, Sporting Stories, Featured Books for 13+ readers
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My Box-Shaped Heart was written by Rachael Lucas and published by Macmillan Children's Books an imprint of Pan Macmillan
