Catch A Falling Star
$19.13
Author: Eileen Merriman
Publisher: Penguin Books
Description:
A fifteen-Year-Old reaches for stardom as he slides into psychosis. Francesca known to everyone as Frankie has scored the part of Princess Fiona in the forthcoming musical production. Even though Jamie Orange has missed out on the part of Shrek, he's happy.
He my not be Frankie's leading man on stage, but he can still try to win her heart. However, all is not well with Jamie. He can't sleep, he can't stop his thoughts:
Bouncing between exultant highs and terrible lows, what will happen when this rising star starts to fall?
This is Eileen Merriman’s thirteenth novel in seven years, and a prequel to Catch Me When You Fall, her second YA novel, published in 2018. Merriman rarely stops for a break; she’s also a consultant at North Shore Hospital, ideally placed to write about medical conditions with authority. And so she does... Catch a Falling Star brims with a restless, flickering energy... In Catch Me When You Fall, Alexandria’s relationship with Jamie takes centre stage and his thoughts are inaccessible to the reader. This prequel fills that gap, providing the reader with Jamie’s point of view and revealing much more of his personality and struggles. Merriman has grown as a writer since she wrote the sequel. Catch a Falling Star is tauter, tense and convincing. It’s Jamie’s story – dark, bookish teenage drama.
Code: 9781776953400
