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Last Chance

On sale

4th August 2011

Price: £5.99

Selected:  ebook / ISBN-13: 9781444907780

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Never in one place long enough to make friends or put down roots, Colie doesn’t expect her trip to the North Carolina coast to change a thing. Always the outcast, she’s resigned to a holiday with only her eccentric aunt Mira for company. But when she finds a job waitressing at the Last Chance cafe, she also finds acceptance, new friends, and the beginnings of romance…

Reviews

Voya
'Dessen has done it again with this charming novel...A wonderful coming-of-age love story will be enthusiastically shared by many high school teens.'
Booklist
'Dessen is an absolutely wonderful writer - stylish, smart and funny.'
School Library Journal
'A story heaped with crackling dialogue and sharp humour.'
Booklist
'Dessen is an absolutely wonderful writer - stylish, smart and funny.'
TES
'Young American writer Dessen has a wit, humour and love of human eccentricity reminiscent of Anne Tyler. 'Last Chance' is too rich and varied to be labelled an issues novel. Dessen reveals herself as the real thing: a sharp, warm and funny writer who shapes her world from the stuff of real life. Highly recommended for - well - everyone.'
Times Educational Supplement
Dessen reveals herself as the real thing: a sharp, warm and funny writer who shapes her world from the stuff of real life. Highly recommended for -- well, everyone.
School Library Journal
'A story heaped with crackling dialogue and sharp humour.'
School Library Journal
'Readers are shown that ya-ya type friendships are a balm to protect young women while they're kissing toads they thought were princes. Teens will just want to cheer when Colie realises that she has always had within what people were looking for externally.'
TES
'Young American writer Dessen has a wit, humour and love of human eccentricity reminiscent of Anne Tyler. 'Last Chance' is too rich and varied to be labelled an issues novel. Dessen reveals herself as the real thing: a sharp, warm and funny writer who shapes her world from the stuff of real life. Highly recommended for - well - everyone.'
School Library Journal
'Readers are shown that ya-ya type friendships are a balm to protect young women while they're kissing toads they thought were princes. Teens will just want to cheer when Colie realises that she has always had within what people were looking for externally.'
Voya
'Dessen has done it again with this charming novel...A wonderful coming-of-age love story will be enthusiastically shared by many high school teens.'