Love is for Losers
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Publisher Description
A laugh out loud look at first love, loss and trying to avoid the girl of your dreams.
What a stupid expression that is in the first place: To fall in love.
Like you fall into a ditch or something.
Maybe people need to look where they’re going.
As far as Phoebe Davis is concerned, love is to be avoided at all costs. Why would you spend your life worrying about something that turns you into a complete moron? If her best friend Polly is anything to go by, the first sniff of a relationship makes you forget about your friends (like, hello?), get completely obsessed with sex (yawn) and bang on constantly about a person who definitely isn't as great as you think they are.
So Phoebe isn't going to fall in love, ever.
But then she meets Emma . . .
Love is for Losers by Wibke Brueggemann is a hilarious, life-affirming novel about all the big stuff: love, sex, death, family, heartbreak, kittens . . . and kisses that turn the whole world upside down.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A sarcastic 15-year-old records angst about her parents, first love and loss, and failure in six months of achingly universal journal entries. London resident Phoebe Davis has no interest in love; in fact, she finds emotional entanglements of every kind more trouble than they're worth. When her best friend abandons her for the idiocy of first love and her frontline physician mother announces she's heading to Syria for six months, once again leaving Phoebe behind with her godmother, Phoebe insists she's better off on her own. After an incident with an escaped designer cat leaves Phoebe in debt to Kate, she begins working at the cancer charity shop Kate runs, and finds herself pulled into the lives of her coworkers, including Emma, whom Phoebe can't stop thinking about. Via journal entries told in Phoebe's no-nonsense tone, debut author Bruegge-mann details the snarky, socially awkward protagonist's growth as she experiences the messiness of attraction and love, and comes to appreciate the joy and pain of connection. Phoebe's frequent internet searches and frank narration style manage to both entertain and inform on a wide variety of topics pertaining to sexuality and identity, whether she's looking into the female orgasm or exploring the "strange/brilliant" idea of marrying oneself. Ages 14 up.
