I was more than happy to help out on the Paradise Girl blog blitz. I think the book sounds great but alas I couldn't fit it into my reading schedule. Even so, I'm thrilled to bring you an extract and a giveaway to win an ebook. First, let's see what Paradise Girl is all about.
Genre:
Nominally YA/NA, general fiction
Release Date:
27 January 2017
Publisher:
Matador
Kerryl Shaw
has always kept a diary, but this one is different because she knows
she is going to die.
A highly
infectious and incurable virus spreads worldwide. Seventeen-year-old
Kerryl lives with her family on a remote farm. They think they will
be safe, but the danger advances. One day a stranger arrives, and it
soon becomes apparent that he has brought the plague to their door.
Kerryl is sure
it’s only a matter of time before she catches the infection and
dies, and decides to record what she thinks will be her final days.
She realises that her diary will never be read, so she imagines a
reader and calls him Adam. Loneliness and isolation affect the
balance of her mind. Little by little Adam comes alive to her, and
she sets off across the moor to meet him.
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Sounds great, doesn't it? Here's a little extract to whet your appetite.
EXTRACT
Introductions
are boring, but unless I take time to explain things it will be
confusing for you. Me first. Not very polite, I know, but it’s
probably the best place to start.
My
name is Kerryl – or that’s what my family and friends call me. My
proper name is Cheryl. Cheryl Alison Shaw. They call me the Paradise
Girl. Don’t get excited – it sounds sexy but it’s not. I’m
seventeen years old and still a virgin. I’m not a nun, I’ve been
out with loads of boys – Tim, Mark (two of them), Nathan, Jake,
Tristram, Steve – but I wasn’t that keen on any of them and they
didn’t last. The exception was Mark II. He was older than me,
fearsomely good looking and he had a nice car. I thought he was
really hot. When I wasn’t with him I was thinking about him. But it
seems he wasn’t as keen as me, and one day my best friend, Josie,
told me that he was going out with Monica Woodbridge and saying I was
a frigid cow. It seems everybody knew I’d been dumped and I was the
last to find out.
The worst
thing was the shock. I thought Monica Woodbridge was my friend. As
well as that, all the girls in our group had been going out with the
same boys for a long time, but I seemed to keep a boyfriend for only
a few weeks. Was there something wrong with me? To be honest, I’m
not a great beauty. I don’t mean I’m a train wreck or anything.
I’m not bad looking, but I’m not like Charlene Brooker or Suzy
Simmonds. They’re electric, both of them. Charlene could be a
model, and Suzy’s always surrounded by a gang of drooling boys.
They’re gone
now: Charlene, Suzy, Josie, Monica, all of them.
Sorry
for the break there. I had to stop to have a little weep. I’ll try
not to do too much of that. I suppose I can console myself with one
thing: with everyone else dead, I must be the most beautiful girl in
the world!
About the author
Phill Featherstone was born
and brought up in the north of England. He trained as a teacher and
taught English in comprehensive schools. In the late 1990s he and his
wife, Sally, founded a publishing company specialising in education
books for the early years. In 2008 the business was acquired by
Bloomsbury, after which they moved to Yorkshire. He now spends his
time writing, travelling, on the arts and on conservation work. Phill
has degrees from Cambridge and Leicester Universities, and is a
member of the Society of Authors. Paradise Girl is his third novel,
although the first to be published.
Paradise Girl recently won
a CHILL WITH A BOOK AWARD!
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