SuitabookAppearance and reality
Love’s apparently perfect life contrasts with difficulty finding friends and with romantic frustration at school.
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Emily Franklin - Author
A school-based story about Love Bukowski, whose privileged-looking life feels socially lonely. Her father’s role as principal shapes her friendships, while an intense interest in an unattainable senior challenges her ideas about love and reality.
The "movie version" of Love Bukowski's life is picture perfect. She can roll out of bed and be at class in her new prep school within minutes because she lives in an amazing house on Hadley Hall Campus, where her Dad just happens to be the principal. And though she's just joined the ranks of the nation's future leaders and lushes of America, they've all become her best friends. Gorgeous upperclassmen crowd around her doorstep just to catch a glimpse of her performing her original songs. Life is sweet!Unfortunately, the not-so-glamorous reality of her life is that her Dad is the principal of the this prototypical New England prep school. Friends are hard to come by, and the only guys who come near her front door are the ones she wants to swat away. Not that there's a shortage of Hadley hotties; it's just that the one Love's singled out is an utterly incredible and totally unattainable senior. Now, Love will have to figure out the true meaning of her name to make her reality as awesome as her fantasies.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA school-based story about Love Bukowski, whose privileged-looking life feels socially lonely. Her father’s role as principal shapes her friendships, while an intense interest in an unattainable senior challenges her ideas about love and reality.
Love’s apparently perfect life contrasts with difficulty finding friends and with romantic frustration at school.
Love is drawn to an unattainable senior and must work out the “true meaning” of her name.
The central tensions involve social isolation, a parent’s prominent position, idealised romance and the effort to work out what love means beyond personal fantasy.
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