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Is This It
t's the summer of 2001 and four friends from a nowhere town in the Midlands are facing the next chapters of their lives. Max is reckoning with heartbreak after his first love dumps him, Kirsty is trying to escape the clutches of her manipulative mother, Nick is staring down the barrel of a summer working at Coasterville, and Ade, having recently come out, just wants to enjoy Big Brother before he starts college in September.
Despite what they hoped, life doesn't get any simpler outside the school walls. Soon, the four friends are faced with politics, messy drunken kisses and handsome exchange students who sound exactly like Joey Tribbiani.
Is This It is a funny, poignant coming-of-age story, which takes a thoughtful look at how millennials became the way they are. Perfect for fans of Jonathan Coe, David Nicholls and Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole series.
Despite what they hoped, life doesn't get any simpler outside the school walls. Soon, the four friends are faced with politics, messy drunken kisses and handsome exchange students who sound exactly like Joey Tribbiani.
Is This It is a funny, poignant coming-of-age story, which takes a thoughtful look at how millennials became the way they are. Perfect for fans of Jonathan Coe, David Nicholls and Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole series.
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Published August 2, 2021
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October 4, 2021
My word. I don’t know how to review this brilliant book. It was people at their worst and it was people at their best and sometimes it was the same person.
This book made me angry, it made me happy and it made me sad. There were times when I felt like I shouldn’t be reading it. It felt too real and too personal but I couldn’t stop. I dipped in and out of the first quarter but devoured the rest of the book in a reading frenzy. I just had to know what became of these people. I wanted the absolute best for some of them and I never even wanted to hear the name again of some of the others.
While I was a bit younger in 2001 than these characters I remember the year well and some of the real events that get mentioned so I couldn’t help wondering how the biggest one of all would be handled. Well done Sir, well done.
There's a lot of supporting characters in this book but it's really about the four main friends. Their struggles, their insecurities, they could have been mine or people I knew at that age. So relatable. So honest. So good.
This book reminds me of Normal People meets The Inbetweeners and I love it for that.
This book made me angry, it made me happy and it made me sad. There were times when I felt like I shouldn’t be reading it. It felt too real and too personal but I couldn’t stop. I dipped in and out of the first quarter but devoured the rest of the book in a reading frenzy. I just had to know what became of these people. I wanted the absolute best for some of them and I never even wanted to hear the name again of some of the others.
While I was a bit younger in 2001 than these characters I remember the year well and some of the real events that get mentioned so I couldn’t help wondering how the biggest one of all would be handled. Well done Sir, well done.
There's a lot of supporting characters in this book but it's really about the four main friends. Their struggles, their insecurities, they could have been mine or people I knew at that age. So relatable. So honest. So good.
This book reminds me of Normal People meets The Inbetweeners and I love it for that.
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