This week's "Waiting on Wednesday" is a book by one of my all-time favourite authors, Sarra Manning, whose other books include the brilliant Diary of a Crush series (see our reviews here and here), Pretty Things, Guitar Girl, Let's Get Lost and the Fashionistas series (reviews of Laura, Hadley, Irina and Candy).
I absolutely can't wait to read this book, which is out in February 2010. Here is more about it:
Bea thinks she's the most boring seventeen-year-old in the world. She's not pretty or popular or funny, unlike her mother who had Bea when she was 17. The only glamorous thing about Bea is the French father who left before she was born and lives in Paris. She yearns for la vie Parisienne every moment of her dull existence. So when Ruby Davies, the leader of her school's most elite clique picks Bea as her new best friend and asks her to go on holiday with them, she's wary but delighted. If nothing else it's two weeks away from her over-protective mother . But when the gang arrive in Spain, Bea is crushed to realise that Ruby and her posse have simply been using her. Bea wreaks vengeance on her so-called friends, and plans to decamp to Paris to find her father. But when she falls asleep on the train and wakes up in Bilbao, she meets a group of American students who are backpacking around Europe and bonds with them straight away, especially the gorgeous Toph, who helps heal Bea's hurting heart. And though Bea has a shock in store when they finally get to Paris, the 'City of Lovers ' really works it magic on Bea and Toph, who spend a week wandering the sun-dappled streets of Paris, talking, holding hands and falling in love. When it comes time to go home to confront her Mum about her mysterious father, the new version of Bea is determined that she 'll never go back to her old, boring way of life - she's no longer Nobody's Girl; she belongs to herself and to Toph... But with an ocean between them, will he wait for her?
Nobody's Girl is available for pre-order in the usual places, but I'm going to link to Waterstone's because I like their revamped online catalogue.
And also, is it my imagination or is the Fashionistas series being re-released next year? If so, I'm Waiting on Wednesday for those, too!
Waiting on Wednesday is from an idea by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This post is by Luisa Plaja.
Sarra Manning has posted the real cover picture here.













