My Life Next Door
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3.5 • 4 Ratings
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- £4.49
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Publisher Description
Addictive first love romance at its very best. Perfect for YA fans of Jenny Han, Emily Henry and Colleen Hoover.
The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, numerous, messy, affectionate. And every day from her balcony perch, seventeen-year-old Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them … until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs the trellis to sit by her and changes everything.
My Life Next Door is the most emotional romantic read of 2023 – and the first in three uttery addicitve contemporary romances by Huntley Fitzpatrick.
Voted one of the top 100 Young Adult Reads of All Time on the goodreads blog. This is romance at its most immersive.
Reviews
'Sweet and effortlessly addictive, we've found our happy place with My Life Next Door'', Maximum Pop
''Perfect, swoony, summer romance'', hellogiggles.com
'‘An almost perfect summer romance’', Kirkus Reviews
''Fitzpatrick's excellent first novel movingly captures the intensity of first love'', Publishers Weekly
'‘Arguably one of the best young adult novels out there. Once you pick it up, you will not want to put it down'', Teen Reads
About the author
Huntley Fitzpatrick, author of the award-shortlisted and highly-acclaimed My Life Next Door, always wanted to be a writer ever since growing up in the small costal town of Connecticut. She worked as an editor on YA titles at Harlequin before becoming a full time YA writer. She is also the author of contemporary romances What I Thought Was True and The Boy Most Likely To. She sadly passed away in 2022.
Huntleyfitzpatrick.com
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Although they've been neighbors for 10 years, Samantha Reed and Jase Garrett are worlds apart. Rich, beautiful Samantha has led a privileged life, strictly dictated by her state senator mother. Jase, part of a large, boisterous family that's despised by Samantha's mother, has to work hard for what he gets. As fate would have it, the two teens fall in love despite or perhaps because of their different backgrounds. But the summer romance turns into a nightmarish moral dilemma as Samantha becomes aware of a secret, hidden by her mother's unscrupulous campaign aide, which could destroy Jase's family or ruin her mother's political career. As Samantha wrestles with what to do, she risks losing her comfortable lifestyle, her mother's trust, and the boy she most admires. Fitzpatrick's excellent first novel movingly captures the intensity of first love, the corrupting forces of power, and the losses suffered by innocent victims caught in a web of political deceit. As the lines between villains and heroes shift, readers will be reminded how "right" and "wrong" choices are rarely crystal clear. Ages 12 up.
