Reading YA fiction past age 50 is a little silly, but this one is by William Nicholson, whose novels (and movies, like Shadowlands) I have enjoyed. There's no real suspense here about how things will end up between the main characters, but the journey is well done and includes a grocery list of adolescent challenges. Nicholson especially deserves credit for giving The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm a key role in the story. Young people could hardly do better than to consult that book on a subject that has unfortunately been deformed by culture and media into something trivial and, often, ugly.
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