Publication Date: 09/07/2020 ISBN: 9780008244125 Category:

Loveless

Alice Oseman

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 09/07/2020 ISBN: 9780008244125 Category:
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Mr B's review

Georgia has never been kissed. On the last day of sixth form, before they all part ways and start university, her friends are determined to change that. But Georgia doesn’t really have a crush. When pressed, she panics, and just names the guy everyone else seems to be crushing on. When presented with the opportunity to kiss him, however, she just… doesn’t want to.
But who doesn’t want to be kissed? Who doesn’t want to be in a relationship? Georgia decides that there must be something wrong with her, and once she gets to university, she’ll figure out how to fix it.
This book was real and raw and funny and heartbreaking. It was such an accurate portrayal of the experience of being asexual that I cannot find fault with it. I laughed, I cried, and I cried and I cried and cried.
A contemporary YA romance that ends up being not a romance at all, but a testimony and a love letter to the importance of friendship and community.

Description

WINNER OF THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2021

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI CHILDREN’S & YA BOOK PRIZE 2022

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The fourth novel from the phenomenally talented Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire and the graphic novel series Heartstopper – now a major Netflix series.

It was all sinking in. I’d never had a crush on anyone. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met. What did that mean?

Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush – but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person one day.

As she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, in a whole new town far from home, Georgia’s ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society, her ‘teenage dream’ is in sight.

But when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. With new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever.

Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along?

This wise, warm and witty story of identity and self-acceptance sees Alice Oseman on towering form as Georgia and her friends discover that true love isn’t limited to romance.

‘A joyous, disarmingly honest book that seems to leap right inside the mind of a teenage girl’ Independent [now iNews]

‘Loveless is an ode to friendship and platonic soulmates; this cosy blanket of a novel understandably won the YA Book Prize 2021’Irish Times

‘A joyful tale of self-discovery” The Bookseller

Publisher Review

Praise for SOLITAIRE:

“The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age” The Times

“The most honest and authentic account of modern teenage life that you’ll read this year… outstanding contemporary fiction with appeal to fans of John Green.” The Bookseller

‘A very authentic, teenage voice’ – Sunday Times

‘Solitaire is an extraordinary novel … [Oseman] has captured her characters’ rage, humour and insecurity with aplomb.’ The Financial Times

‘Oseman proves herself a clever, witty writer’ Publishers Weekly

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