Available January 3rd, 2014
An Unstill Life
Things at home are rough for fifteen-year-old
Livvie Quinn. Jules, her beloved older sister is sick again after being cancer
free for almost ten years. Her mom
becomes more frantic and unapproachable every day. School isn’t much better. Just when she needs them most, her closest
friends get boyfriends and have little time for Livvie – except to set her up
on a series of disastrous blind dates.
Livvie seeks refuge in the art room and finds
Bianca, the school ‘freak’. Free-spirited and confident, Bianca is
everything Livvie isn’t. Shaken by her mom’s desperation, her sister’s
deteriorating condition, and abandoned by her friends, Livvie finds comfort and
an attraction she never felt before with Bianca.
When their relationship is discovered, Livvie and
Bianca become victims of persecution and bullying. School authorities won’t
help and even forbid the pair to attend the Winter Formal as a couple. If
Livvie defies them and goes, she risks expulsion and further ridicule from her
classmates. At home, her mother’s behavior escalates to new levels of crazy and
Jules is begging for help to end the pain once and for all.
While searching for the strength to make her life
her own, Livvie must decide how far she’s willing to go for the people she
loves.
GLTB
YA
Publisher: Musa Publishing
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About The Author
Having spent a lifetime travelling the globe, Kate Larkindale
is currently residing in Wellington, New Zealand. A cinema manager, film reviewer and mother,
she’s surprised she finds any time to write, but doesn’t sleep much. As a result, she can usually be found hanging
out near the espresso machine.
Her short stories have appeared in Halfway Down The Stairs,
A Fly in Amber, Daily Flash Anthology, The Barrier Islands Review, Everyday
Fiction, Death Rattle, Drastic Measures, Cutlass & Musket and Residential
Aliens, among others.
She has written eight contemporary YA novels, five of which
other people are allowed to see. She has
also written one very bad historical romance.
She is currently working on a new YA novel that is still looking for a
title other than its Twitter hashtag, #juvvielesbian.
Author
Links
Website: http://katelarkindale.blogspot.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Vampyr14
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