EVERYBODY HURTS

Boy meets girl and a modern love story emerges, complete with lots of gritty humour, bad language, sexual references and oh, to be young again! The two voices work really well, and you find yourself laughing out loud one minute then screaming at the book the next and sobbing your heart out in this very easy quick read, designed as young adult fiction. 'It's Leeds, I said, not Hollywood. You're not going to find a hero working down Kwikfit.' Matt and Sophia live in the same city but they come from the opposite side of the track. By rights they should never have met. They definitely should never have fallen in love at first sight, of all cliches. But to their great surprise they do and that's the easy part. It's what to do next that they struggle with. Family, friends and circumstances are mostly against them. They betray themselves and each other. It's true what they say - everybody hurts sometimes but sometimes too, the pain is worth it. Teenage to young adult fiction. 342pp, paperback.