'DEAR EMMIE BLUE is the new Eleanor Oliphant. Fresh and funny writing, with a heroine (and heroes!) I adored.' - Holly Miller 'This gorgeous and clever book is a heartfelt story about love and friendship, which certainly didn't end the way I expected. 'Louis's is a bold, standout voice in the women's fiction genre.' - Gillian McAllister

'Beautifully captures the heartache and frustrations of carrying our teenaged selves with us wherever we go, and yet we would never be without them. 'Lia is one of those rare writers who manage to break your heart and mend it all at once.' - Stacey Halls A love story to cherish.' - Michelle Adams But nothing in life ever quite goes as planned, does it? Filled with heart and humor, Dear Emmie Blue “beautifully captures the heartache and frustrations of carrying our teenaged selves with us wherever we go” (Anstey Harris, author of Goodbye Paris ) that is perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and Evvie Drake Starts Over. And when Lucas tells Emmie he has a big question to ask her, she’s convinced this is the moment he’ll reveal his feelings for her. So dedicated to her love for Lucas, Emmie has all but neglected her life outside of this relationship-she’s given up the search for her absentee father, no longer tries to build bridges with her distant mother, and lives as a lodger to an old lady she barely knows after being laid off. She has pinned all her hopes on him and waits patiently for him to finally admit that she’s the one for him.

Now, fourteen years later, Emmie is hiding the fact that she’s desperately in love with Lucas. Weeks later, on a beach in France, Lucas Moreau discovered the balloon and immediately emailed the attached address, sparking an intense friendship between the two teens.

Attached was her name, her email address…and a secret she desperately wanted to be free of. At sixteen, Emmie Blue stood in the fields of her school and released a red balloon into the sky. But fourteen years later, everything Emmie has planned is up in the air. In this charming and poignant novel that “oozes charm and wit and speaks beautifully about friendship and love, and the differences between the two” (Laura Pearson, author of I Wanted You to Know ), teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it.

Dear emmie blue by lia louis