Breathless
A beautiful romance about first love and heartbreak from the bestselling author
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4.1 • 22 Ratings
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- £3.99
Publisher Description
Your first love, your first time, your first heartbreak. The new novel from Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places.
You were my first. Not just sex, although that was part of it, but the first to look past everything else into me. Some of the names and places have been changed, but the story is true.
Claudine Henry was not supposed to spend her summer on this remote island off the coast of Georgia.
She was supposed to be on a road trip with her best friend, spending every last minute together before they go to college.
But after her father makes a shock announcement, she is exiled with her shaken mother, with no phone service and no one she knows. She is completely cut off.
Until she meets Jeremiah. Free spirited, mysterious and beautiful, their chemistry is immediate and irresistible.
They both know that whatever they have can only last the summer, but maybe one summer is enough...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Claude's family is a perfect unit of three, until, on the verge of her high school graduation, her parents tell her that they're splitting up. She's already filled with uncertainty will she and her best friend, Saz, stay connected after school ends? Will she lose her virginity? Become the writer she wants to be? and now the floor feels like it's been pulled out from under her, even more so when her mother whisks her to a remote island off Georgia's coast ("This is what it feels like to be exiled"). There, Claude tries to imagine being brave, even as she begins a potentially risky and exciting relationship with handsome, nature-loving Jeremiah, called "Miah." Niven (Holding Up the Universe) describes this as her most personal novel, which comes through in both the book's flaws and its strengths. The story begins slowly, and Claude's torrent of emotions wanting and not wanting Miah, hating and not hating her father, loving and resenting her mother and best friend can feel overdescribed. But Niven intimately and sensually depicts Claude's determination to know herself and her body, and to genuinely connect not just with Miah but with herself. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
Favourite book of all time
This is by far the best story I’ve ever read. Every moment of this story had me hooked and I can only wish there was more of it to read. Beautiful story from start to finish and deserves more attention than it has gotten. It is so real and captivating, I truly cannot fault any of it!