![]() ![]() She’s looking for a little adventure, possibly the chance to have a little holiday fling, and to make some decisions about how she wants to spend the next few years. Liza is newly out as lesbian to her parents, and Kit, but no one else. What follows for each of them, and for Kit, who’s left behind, is a coming-of-age story that will resonate with many readers for a variety of reasons. The other four young women decide to go anyway, even though their only connection to each other is Kit. However, days before they are supposed to depart, Kit-who has a reputation for making very bad decisions-discovers she is penniless and unable to take the journey. Kit, her cousin, and three of her friends were supposed to go on a four-week trip around Europe in between finishing high school and starting university. What might have seemed a daunting prospect to write (and possibly read), is achieved brilliantly with an effortlessness that is amazing to experience. It’s a stand-alone tale, not related to the “Story of Now” series, and it’s even more ambitious than her earlier works as it features no less than four main characters’ points of view. ![]() “Points of Departure”, her new YA novel, is even more of a gem. 5 It’s not the journey but who you’re with.Įmily O’Beirne has recently published two YA novels in her “Story of Now” series, and I thought both of those were excellent. ![]()
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