![]() ![]() I don’t think 16-year-old boys reveal so much so quickly. It’s not how I remembered boys (was I hanging around with the wrong boys? Maybe). I only have one issue with this perfectly lovely YA novel – Park is just a tad too forward for my liking. Snatched encounters in the corridor, notes in text books and the dissection and analysis of every thing the person says. ![]() ![]() Rowell captures the intensity of first love perfectly – the anticipation, the awkwardness and that particular way that time speeds up and then slows down when your day revolves around moments with another person. He’s half Korean, half Anglo-American and living in a town where Asian is unusual. In contrast, Park comes from a hunky-dory-apple-pie-good family. Set over the course of one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell is the story of two misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but willing to try.Įleanor is a red-haired, slightly plump girl who wears ‘alternative’ clothing out of necessity – safety pins and men’s shirts may have been de rigueur for some but Eleanor’s family has little money and are at the mercy of their drunk, abusive step-father. ![]() First loves… The eighties… How could I not just want to read this book straight away? (No, it had nothing to do with a certain boy named Robert who broke my heart in 1987. ![]()
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