Falling in Love with English Boys
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- £4.49
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- £4.49
Publisher Description
Two girls, two centuries, one story about what happens when happily-ever-after comes with a catch . . .
Would you rather:
• Know it all or have it all?
• Have your diary read by strangers or have your life completely forgotten?
• Be with Mister Right or Prince Wrong?
Sixteen-year-old Catherine Vernon has been stranded in London for the summer of no friends, no ex-boyfriend Adam the Scum (good riddance!), and absolutely nothing to do but blog about her misery to her friends back home. Desperate for something—anything—to do in London while her (s)mother’s off researching boring historical things, Cat starts reading the 1815 diary of Katherine Percival her mom gives her—and finds the similarities between their lives to be oddly close.
But where Katherine has the whirls of the society, the parties, and the gossip over who is engaged to who, Cat’s only got some really excellent English chocolate. Then she meets William Percival—the uber-hot descendant of Katherine—and things start looking up . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A 16-year-old Catherine from the 21st century who's funny, irreverent, and prone to making bulleted lists and an 18-year-old Katherine who lived in the 19th century both keep diaries (Cather ine's is a blog) about their lives, romances, and families in London. Driving the story is the modern-day Catherine, whose academic "(s)mother" carts her off to England for the summer, forcing her to leave behind all her friends in Philadelphia. While there, she reads the 19th-century Katherine's diary, courtesy of Mom, and begins to appreciate her own life more. Jensen, making her YA debut, alternates between the girls' parallel experiences, yet the diary format makes for an uneven narrative. At times, Catherine's prose moves quickly and the dialogue is crisp and funny, while at others, her blog entries feel thrown together. Katherine's diary reads as quite proper when juxtaposed with Catherine's contemporary sense of humor, but it's clear that she can be every bit as acid as her modern counterpart. Romance blossoms for both, with varying outcomes, but the best part of this story is Catherine's opinionated take on London. Ages 12 up.
