The Unexpected Mess of It All

Tozer, Gabrielle

From the YA Queen of Rom-com comes a funny and fraught ‘enemies-to-will-they-won’t-they’ romance between family friends Jamila and Billy.

Jamila Dakhoul wants to escape her life.

Forget everything.

Forget that her only friends are strangers on the internet.

Forget she’s stuck in a caravan after a fire destroyed her family’s house.

Forget that Year 12 is a brutal hellhole where bullying is an Olympic sport.

Forget Billy Radcliffe once and for all.

But as Jamila tries to untangle the messy threads of her life on a weekend away with her family, it becomes clear that she can’t outrun her past, no matter how hard she tries…

A coming-of-age story about falling apart, starting over, and the people and places you can’t live without from the award-winning author of Remind Me How This Ends, Can’t Say it Went to Plan and The Intern.

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