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‘Sheppard brilliantly captures all the awkwardness and insecurities of being in your early teens in this hopeful, heart-filled paean to friendship and girlhood.’ Observer

When you’re figuring it all out, there are some friendships that mean the most.

Meet Sunita, Gifty, Dawn and May. They’re each about to have a summer they’ll never forget, but does growing up have to mean growing apart?

Funny, relatable and heart-warming, get ready to laugh, cringe and cry with these four besties!

‘A gorgeous ode to teen friendship with all the hallmarks of classic teen literature’ Lizzie Huxley-Jones

‘Think Louise Rennison for Generation Z.’ The Bookseller

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Book clubs – Get Ready to Connect! How to make the most from the site

The Book Club Hub, formerly known as Reading Groups for Everyone, is packed with amazing features to keep you and your fellow readers connected — not just within your club, but with the entire Book Club Hub community. Find out how to have members join your online book club.

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Book Club Hub - Book Club User Guide

The Book Club Hub is a platform connecting readers and book clubs of all ages across the UK. It is managed by national reading charity, The Reading Agency. The Book Club Hub offers book club leaders access to free offers from publishers and prizes in return for reviews, gives them the chance to read the latest books and author news to help them pick their next read, and allows them to download resources to use with their club. Readers can also share reviews of the books they have read and...

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Radio 2 Book Club - The Poet Empress

The first book to be featured this season on the Sara Cox Radio 2 Book Club is The Poet Empress by Shen Tao—a sensational debut that enthrals with its fierce meditation on love, power, and survival through art. The book will be released on 20 January and Shen’s interview with Sara is on BBC Sounds from Tuesday 13 January.

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