'Impulsive Lottie – heavy-metal fan, expert tomato-grower and frequent visitor to the principal’s office – is in even more trouble than usual.
'Her best friend Grace has dropped an unlikely bombshell: she’s dating Lottie’s mortal enemy, good-girl Evelyn Tait.
'Studious Jude, the boy next door, has the perfect war plan. Lottie will beat Evelyn at her own good-girl game, unveiling Miss Perfect’s sinister side in the process.
'Taking life more seriously starts as fun, but soon offers its own rewards . . . so long as Lottie can manage gorgeous Sebastian’s sudden interest, Jude acting weird, and the discovery that she might actually be good at something.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
'Poppy Nwosu has made an art form of the teen romance, with realistic characters and dialogue that capture that aching self-consciousness and dramatic up and down of adolescent life. Making friends with Alice Dyson (reviewed in English in Australia 54.2 (2019) was the first and Alice, its conscientious protagonist, works hard with not much in her life but study. A brief dance with school troublemaker, Teddy Taualai, goes viral and the reader watches with delight as Alice's initial rebuffs slowly morph into a dance as their friendship grows and changes. Reputation and stereotyping are part of the appeal of this entertaining novel with bullying, identity and anxiety hovering in the wings.' (Introduction)
Live Recording : A LoveOzYA All Stars Panel
Jo Case
(interviewer),
2020
23470738
2020
single work
podcast
interview
'YA Publisher Jo Case hosts a discussion with four Australian YA Authors: Sarah Epstein, Poppy Nwosu, Kay Kerr and Anna Whateley. This is a live recording of an online event hosted via Zoom during the Covid-19 crisis.' (Production summary)
'Poppy Nwosu has made an art form of the teen romance, with realistic characters and dialogue that capture that aching self-consciousness and dramatic up and down of adolescent life. Making friends with Alice Dyson (reviewed in English in Australia 54.2 (2019) was the first and Alice, its conscientious protagonist, works hard with not much in her life but study. A brief dance with school troublemaker, Teddy Taualai, goes viral and the reader watches with delight as Alice's initial rebuffs slowly morph into a dance as their friendship grows and changes. Reputation and stereotyping are part of the appeal of this entertaining novel with bullying, identity and anxiety hovering in the wings.' (Introduction)
Live Recording : A LoveOzYA All Stars Panel
Jo Case
(interviewer),
2020
23470738
2020
single work
podcast
interview
'YA Publisher Jo Case hosts a discussion with four Australian YA Authors: Sarah Epstein, Poppy Nwosu, Kay Kerr and Anna Whateley. This is a live recording of an online event hosted via Zoom during the Covid-19 crisis.' (Production summary)
