Dear Emmie Blue: A Novel by Lia Louis (English) Paperback Book

Description: Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis "Teenager Emmie Blue ... releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it. Now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has been counting on is gone for good, and everything she planned is up in the air"-- FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In this charming and poignant novel that "oozes charm and wit and speaks beautifully about friendship and love, and the differences between the two" (Laura Pearson, author of I Wanted You to Know), teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it. But fourteen years later, everything Emmie has planned is up in the air. At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. Attached was her name, her email address...and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached address, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens. Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that shes desperately in love with Lucas. She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that shes the one for him. So dedicated to her love for Lucas, Emmie has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship--shes given up the search for her absentee father, no longer tries to build bridges with her distant mother, and lives as a lodger to an old lady she barely knows after being laid off. And when Lucas tells Emmie he has a big question to ask her, shes convinced this is the moment hell reveal his feelings for her. But nothing in life ever quite goes as planned, does it? Filled with heart and humor, Dear Emmie Blue "beautifully captures the heartache and frustrations of carrying our teenaged selves with us wherever we go" (Anstey Harris, author of Goodbye Paris) that is perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Evvie Drake Starts Over. Author Biography Lia Louis lives in the United Kingdom with her partner and three young children. Before raising a family, she worked as a freelance copywriter and proofreader. She was the 2015 winner of Elle magazines annual writing competition and has been a contributor for Bloomsburys Writers and Artists blog for aspiring writers. She is the author of Somewhere Close to Happy, Dear Emmie Blue, Eight Perfect Hours, and The Key to My Heart. Review "Ebbing and flowing with the ups and downs of life, DEAR EMMIE BLUE is a delightful read that fans of Bridget Joness Diary and Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine will enjoy."-- "BookPage""Like My Best Friends Wedding plus an unfairly gorgeous Frenchwoman, mixtapes, and miles of inside jokes . . . Dear Emmie Blue will resonate long after readers turn the last page."-- "Booklist" Review Quote "This gorgeous and clever book is a heartfelt story about love and friendship, which certainly didnt end the way I expected. Fresh and funny writing, with a heroine (and heroes!) I adored." Excerpt from Book Chapter 1 I was ready; so ready for him to ask me. So ready, I was practically beaming, and I imagine so red in the cheeks, I probably looked ruddy, like streetwise children do in Charles Dickens novels--a tomato with a beating heart. Only five minutes ago, everything was perfect, and I dont often use that word because nothing, however wonderful--people, kisses, bacon sandwiches--ever truly is. But it was. The restaurant, the candlelit table, the beach beyond the decking with its soft-sounding waves, and the wine, which tasted so close to what wed had nine years ago, on the eve of our twenty-first birthdays, and hadnt been able to remember the name of since. The fairy lights, spiraling the pillars of the wooden gazebo we sat beneath. The sea breeze. Even my hair had gone just right for the first time since, well, probably that one, singular time it did , and that was likely back when I listened to a Walkman and was convinced Jon Bon Jovi would somehow find himself on a mini-break in Ramsgate, bump into me, and ask me out to the Wimpy for a burger and chips. And Lucas. Of course, Lucas, but then, he always looks as close to perfect as you can get. I close my eyes now, palm pressed against my forehead, knees bent on the tiles of this cold bathroom floor, and I think of him in the next room. Handsome, in that English, waspy way of his. Skin slightly bronzed from the French sun. That crisp white shirt pressed and open at the collar. When wed first arrived, just a couple of hours ago, swiftly ordering wine, and sharing two appetizers, I looked across at him and wondered dreamily about how we looked to other diners, against the setting sun. Who were we, to the silhouettes of strangers, ambling along the sand and past the veranda on which we sat, their shoes dangling from their fingers at their sides? Wed looked meant to be, I reckon. Wed looked like a happy couple out for dinner by the beach. An anniversary, maybe. A celebration for something. A date night, even, away from the kids at home. Two. One boy, one girl. "Im nervous here, Em," Lucas had begun with a chuckle, hands fidgeting on the table, fingers twisting the ring on his index finger, "to ask you." And in that moment, at that table, in that restaurant--the bathroom of which Im hiding in now--I think Id felt more ready, more sure, than I have ever been of anything. Ready and waiting to say yes. Id even planned how I would say it, although Rosie said that if I rehearsed it too much, Id sound constipated and give the impression I actually didnt want to say yes, and "tonight is not the night to do that thing where you talk like youve got the barrel of some maniacs gun shoved into your back, Emmie, cause you do that sometimes, dont you, when youre nervy?" But I did rehearse it in my head, ever so slightly, on the ferry over this morning. Id say something sweet, something clever, like, "What took you so long, Lucas Moreau? Id love nothing more." And he would squeeze my hand across the table--across the same, scallop-edged tablecloths Le Rivage has had draped on every one of their little round tables for as long as we have been coming here, and outside, on our way home, wed walk along the beach, Lucas pausing, as always, to show me where hed found my balloon all those years ago. Hed kiss me, too, I was sure. At his car, he would probably stop and bend, slowly, hesitatingly, to kiss me, a finger and thumb at my chin. Lucas would kiss me for the first time in fourteen years, both of us tasting of moules marini Details ISBN1982135921 Language English ISBN-10 1982135921 ISBN-13 9781982135928 Format Paperback Publication Date 2021-02-02 Subtitle A Novel Pages 336 Author Lia Louis Short Title Dear Emmie Blue Year 2021 Illustrations Illustrations, unspecified DEWEY 823.92 Audience General UK Release Date 2021-02-02 Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Simon & Schuster Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2021-02-02 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131188568;

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