The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting

Lost for Words

Pretty Things

Butterfly Summer

Tokyo Dreaming

Temple Boys

Love and First Sight

Where You See Yourself

Every so often, two people are born who are the perfect matches for each other. Soulmates. But while the odds of this happening are about as likely as being struck by lightning, when these people do meet and fall in love…thunderstorms, lightning strikes and lashings of rain are only the beginning of their problems.

Enter Poppy, the 17-year-old cynic with a serious addiction to banana milk, and Noah, the heart-throb guitarist; residents of mediocre Middletown, sometime students, and…soulmates.

After a chance meeting at a local band night, Poppy and Noah find themselves swept up in a whirlwind romance unlike anything they’ve ever experienced before. But with a secret international agency preparing to separate them, a trail of destruction rumbling in their wake, (and a looming psychology coursework deadline), they are left with an impossible choice between the end of the world, or a life without love…

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The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting

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Lost for Words

Aoife Walsh, 2019

Pretty Things

Sarra Manning, 2005

Butterfly Summer

Anne-Marie Conway, 2012

Tokyo Dreaming

Emiko Jean, 2022

Temple Boys

Jamie Buxton, 2014

Love and First Sight

Josh Sundquist, 2017

Where You See Yourself

Claire Forrest, 2023