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Every Summer | Claire Hennessy
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Paperback, 211 pages. Every summer Alice imagines her miraculous transformation from quiet little nobody to interesting and elegant individual. It hasn’t happened yet, but she’s still hoping. And besides, it keeps her from obsessing over her ex-boyfriend . . . Every summer Lynn runs around doing a hundred different things. Drama, dancing, languages, music she believes in making her summer holidays ‘worthwhile’. She’s never been the kind of girl to sit around wistfully waiting for her life to begin. 8220;...
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Good Girls Don’t | Claire Hennessy
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Good Girls Don’t. Cover design: Eimear Ryan. 8220;My past is a list of experiences. Not mistakes, experiences, and if I had the chance to go back and change something, I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t be me otherwise. But I do wish that the past would just stay put…”. Good girls behave themselves. Good girls work hard. Good girls always do the right thing. But at what point do you need to stop sorting everyone else’s life out and find your own happy ending even if that means hurting someone you care about? Or Barr...
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Girls On The Verge | Claire Hennessy
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Girls On The Verge. Paperback, 584 pages. Girls On The Verge. Is a fantastic collection of Claire Hennessy’s first three books: Dear Diary. 5 friends, 5 diaries, 5 months. They’ve got it all down, but do they really know each other? Boyfriends, slumber parties and stepsisters. In 5 months, 5 diaries and 5 friends come a long way! What do you do when life is all about being her sister? When no matter what you do you end up being compared to her? What do you do if you end up hating her? About 5 minutes ago.
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Memories | Claire Hennessy
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Paperback, 177 pages. Sequel to Being Her Sister. Sometimes it’s hard to get over your past. Rachel is convinced she’s a loser and second-best to her sister: an ugly duckling to Danielle the swan. She’s positive no one wants her around. In short, she’s a walking bundle of nerves. Only one thing will make her happy: to be thin. Nicole is haunted by a humiliating rejection. Everyone thinks she’s oozing with self-esteem, but inwardly she’s scared she’s totally worthless. 8220;The moment you read the opening...
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That Girl | Claire Hennessy
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Paperback, 216 pages. Kim’s not the kind of girl who worries too much, but there’s something about her upcoming 16th birthday celebration that’s stressing her out. Is it her anxiety about mixing friends who haven’t met before? Is that one person after another is dropping out to go to a concert instead? Or the fear that her parents will hover over everyone all night long? Is there any place for such a friendship in her life? Shouldn’t her great boyfriend be enough? Will her parents be really embarrassing?
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Stereotype | Claire Hennessy
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Cover design: Eimear Ryan. 8220;The sad truth is that I wish I were like them sometimes… the easy friendship they seem to have, the teenage normality that they all take for granted, that I used to imagine I’d have when I finally became a teenager.”. Abigail Evans on the outside: quiet. Nothing special. Not someone you’d pay too much attention to. Originally published by Poolbeg Press in 2003,. Is now available in a digital edition. For the first time. Original publication details and reviews below:.
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Dear Diary… | Claire Hennessy
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Paperback, 216 pages. They’ve got it all down. But do they really know each other? Boyfriends, slumber-parties and stepsisters:. 038; 5 diaries,. Come a long way. 8220;A fun read for girls on the verge of PMT.”. Mary Arrigan, The Sunday Tribune. 8220;The book’s a charmer.”. 8220;Really well-written and set authentically in the Ireland of today… witty and perceptive.”. 8220;Nothing has quite as daringly set out to cross new frontiers.”. Robert Dunbar, The Irish Times. About writing Dear Diary…. 8221; (No&...
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Afterwards | Claire Hennessy
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Paperback, 188 pages. When 14-year-old Claudia gets home one day to find her mother’s walked out, she doesn’t know what to think. I can’t do this anymore is hardly an explanation, and her dad is too busy with work to offer any insight into why his wife has left, nor does he seem to even take it seriously. Celia Keenan, Sunday Independent. I wrote this book the summer after I finished secondary school, while I was still waiting for Leaving Cert results (for the non-Irish among you, those are the all-impor...
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Big Picture | Claire Hennessy
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There’s more to life than exams. Except when it’s the Leaving Cert. Sixth year. It’s the year of: crazy studying, frantic calculations of points, and putting your life on hold for the sake of your future. So Vicky and Anna have always believed, anyway. 8220;A realistic portrayal of a vital year in any young person’s life.”. 8211; CBI Recommended Reading Guide 2008/09). About writing Big Picture. What I said when this was published:. 8220;When writing about That Girl. Subscribe to the comments on this post.
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