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***Currently a Featured Fanfiction***Reeling from witnessing a kiss between her boyfriend Louis and best friend Lottie, life only gets worse for Niamh when she receives her A Level results. With the rest of the year group set for new lives at University, Louis and Lottie reveal their plans to take a year out travelling the world together. Yet for Niamh? She must remain at home in rural Buckinghamshire in order to re-sit chemistry; the exam she just failed. With only her eccentric mother and Buffy the Vampire Slayer on repeat for company, Niamh resolves to move forward with her life, but not before she has given one last shot at reviving her relationship with Louis. But travelling half way across the world to California to meet him means that Niamh must put her insecurities aside if she is to make things a success. How will she cope with the forever taunting presence of Lottie and the Models Incorporated or worse still Harry, Louis' newest travel buddy who just can't seem to keep his annoying opinions to himself.…

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Currently listed on Wattpad's 'Summertime Stories' Reading ListEmma thought the Corfu sun would bring her a great tan and relaxation during her Gap Year before starting Medical School. But working the package holiday conveyor belt as one of Select Holidays Representative’s is proving more heat stroke and headache than an endless working vacation. With no friends except for her roommate Katie and Dave the Head Rep, Emma is ready to abandon the lingering sweat and mosquitoes and hand in her notice, until a trip to the Doctors introduces her to final year medic Liam. And why does the barman at Zorb’s bar keep staring at her all the time? Will Emma stay to find out?…

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***Jan 2016 - The Budding Roses has been selected as one of the TOP 10 ONE DIRECTION FANFICTIONS worth reading by Sugarscape! http://www.sugarscape.com/bookclub/news/a1085541/10-one-direction-fanfics-worth-reading-january/ ***Currently appearing on the Wattpad Fan fiction Featured List and selected for Wattpad's 'Back to school YA' Reading List.Set amidst a chaos of hilarity in 1990's Brighouse, West Yorkshire, The Budding Roses is a classic Young Adult coming of age novel which follows the anxious voice of teenager, Simone Rose, and her descent in to panic, as she struggles to cope with the all-consuming occupation of lusting after boys and the emotional exhaustion of never being able to find the right one.As Baywatch plays on the television Simone has just vomited for the twelfth time, which as she has established has to be God's secret punishment for her recent transgression with the loathsome Harry Styles. At least she has Baywatch to maintain her spirits during illness, and it is from her sick bed that she falls in love for the first time with tanned, floppy haired Adonis, life guard Eddie Kramer. Powered back to health by her emerging amour, Simone soon realises that the coal blackened streets of Brighouse offer just as many hotties as the far flung beaches of Southern California. If only best friend, precocious know it all, Natasha could share her romantic sensibilities instead of chasing after Harry and his stupid football or worse still High School's newest hero, Liam Payne. Why can't such losers bog off and stop embarrassing her with their immaturities? Unfortunately for Simone, such luck is not to be hers.…