A GIRL CAN DREAM

Love story and un love story intertwine in the brand new thriller romance from the globally bestseller author of The One Memory of Flora Banks Emily Barr Venice 2024Hazel is on a spontaneous holiday with her stepbrother Enzo and best friend Phoebe They have just helped Hazel escape her increasingly destructive relationship with her older boyfriend and have come away to celebrate her being her again In the dreamy Italian sunshine Hazel is managing to relax to stop looking over her shoulder in case Freddie has followed her here But there s a girl she keeps seeing in the city A girl with beautiful eyes And whenever Hazel sees her and their eyes meet something strange seems to happen de ja vu at first and then even stranger things that make her wonder if she s really in Venice at all England 2022Hazel goes to see an up and coming local band with Enzo and some friends She locks eyes with the lead singer Freddie during a song and he finds her afterwards and slips her his number She s not even 16 He is ten years older She knows it s stupid She didn t even think it was boys she was into Things with Freddie start wonderfully flowers dates he even writes a song about her It s everything a girl could dream of Until it s absolutely not