Heartbeat
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- 4,99 €
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- 4,99 €
Publisher Description
We just look at each other, and I don’t care that he’s gorgeous and screwed up.
I care that he really gets what’s going on.
Sees it.
Sees me.
Since her mother's sudden death, Emma’s been, unable to really grieve, because in a way, her mum’s still there – kept ‘alive’ by machines for the sake of the baby growing inside her.
And as Emma watches her old life fall apart around her, it sometimes feels like she’s the one who died instead. Like she needs someone to remind her how to breathe.
Until she meets Caleb, a boy whose anger and loss could match her own – and who might have the power to make Emma finally feel like her heart’s started beating again.
Praise for Elizabeth Scott
‘The best love story I’ve read.’ – Sarah Dessen on Something Maybe
About the author
ELIZABETH SCOTT grew up in a town so small it didn't even have a post office, though it did boast an impressive cattle population. She's sold hardware and panty hose and had a memorable three-day stint in the dot-com industry, where she learned that she really didn't want a career burning CDs. She lives just outside Washington, D.C., with her husband, and firmly believes you can never own too many books.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Scott (Miracle) returns with the wrenching story of 17-year-old Emma, whose mother, Lisa, had a sudden stroke while pregnant; although Lisa is brain-dead, she is being kept alive by machines to save the baby growing inside her. Emma's stepfather, Dan, made the choice to keep Lisa alive, and Emma hates him for it, also believing that Dan essentially killed her mother by getting her pregnant in the first place. At first, only Emma's best friend Olivia knows her despair, but at the hospital Emma connects with Caleb, who's doing community service after driving his father's Porsche into a lake. Caleb has had his own misfortunes: he feels responsible for his younger sister's death, and his parents also blame him for it. Scott captures the angst and euphoria of first love and the intensity of bonds formed through hardship. At times the story veers toward melodrama, but Emma's emotional conflict characterized by moments of irrationality, rage, and confusion is honest, and her eventual ability to see that tragedies can be blameless results in a powerful transformation. Ages 14 up.
