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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Road Tripping with Pearl Nash
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'The summer is finally here, and Pearl Nash is on a mission to save her slowly disintegrating friendship with a whirlwind end-of-year road trip that is definitely, absolutely, most positively going to solve all her problems.

'Except, instead of her best friend Daisy's feet on her dash, suddenly Pearl ends up stuck in the middle of the desert beside Obi Okocha, a boy with a mega-watt smile and an endlessly irritating attitude. Tasked with delivering him to the most epic end-of-year party ever, located in a beach shack in literal middle-of-nowhere woop woop, Pearl Nash is certain that nothing could be worse than this.

'She's wrong.

'Add in a breakdown, multiple arguments, an AWOL nana and a kiss that was most definitely a huge mistake, and suddenly Pearl has the perfect ingredients for the perfect disaster.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2021 .
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      Extent: 264p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st September 2021
      ISBN: 9781743058435

Other Formats

  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

Making Friends with Alice Dyson / Taking down Evelyn Tait / Road Tripping with Pearl Nash Anonymous , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 56 no. 3 2022; (p. 72-73)

— Review of Making Friends with Alice Dyson Poppy Nwosu , 2019 single work novel ; Taking Down Evelyn Tait Poppy Nwosu , 2020 single work novel ; Road Tripping with Pearl Nash Poppy Nwosu , 2021 single work novel

'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)

Making Friends with Alice Dyson / Taking down Evelyn Tait / Road Tripping with Pearl Nash Anonymous , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: English in Australia , vol. 56 no. 3 2022; (p. 72-73)

— Review of Making Friends with Alice Dyson Poppy Nwosu , 2019 single work novel ; Taking Down Evelyn Tait Poppy Nwosu , 2020 single work novel ; Road Tripping with Pearl Nash Poppy Nwosu , 2021 single work novel

'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)

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