Absolute Torture! by Sue Limb
Disaster! Jess tried to hide her horror. Her mum frowned. ‘What's wrong, sweetheart? It's what you've always wanted!' Jess's mum has finally given in and arranged a trip to see Jess's dad. But this is so the wrong moment: Jess has just got it together with Fred, and in an incredibly romantic way he has scraped money together to get them both tickets to the hottest music festival . . . but instead Jess is going on a road trip with her mum and her grandmother (and her grandfather, but he doesn't quite count as he is ashes in an urn). Jess is keen to keep in touch with Fred by text while she is away, but after a while he just stops responding. And her best friend Flora is now going to the exact same music festival Jess was supposed to go to! Jess can't help her paranoia about Fred working overtime. If Jess isn't careful, her worries are going to completely spoil her much-wanted visit to her dad. But when she gets there, it turns out that everybody has a surprise for each other. Needless to say, some work out better than others . . . In this sequel Sue Limb has surpassed herself. The writing is still fresh, funny and effervescent, but at the same time Sue has captured the difficult, prickly but, above all, loving relationship between a daughter and her parents.
Praise for the Jess Jordan stories: Limb's heroine is cleverer than Rennison's, less bonkers than McKay's, but just as captivating * The Times *
Very funny and sharply observed, this is the kind of book no teenage girl should be without * The Bookseller *
Hilarious and spot-on how it captures those boyfriend blues * Mizz *
Amidst the slapstick, Limb weaves such themes as friendship and rivalry, the importance or not of appearances and so forth. . this is pink lit that girls (and boys with a copy in a plain wrapper) will love * Books for Keeps *
Very funny and sharply observed, this is the kind of book no teenage girl should be without * The Bookseller *
Hilarious and spot-on how it captures those boyfriend blues * Mizz *
Amidst the slapstick, Limb weaves such themes as friendship and rivalry, the importance or not of appearances and so forth. . this is pink lit that girls (and boys with a copy in a plain wrapper) will love * Books for Keeps *
Sue Limb is the bestselling author of the Jess Jordan stories for Bloomsbury. Her other children's books include Come Back, Grandma, which was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize. Sue lives on a remote organic farm near Nailsworth in Gloucestershire.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781408817292 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408817292 |
| Title | Absolute Torture! |
| Author | Sue Limb |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2012-01-05 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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