Product Description
A brilliantly effervescent sequel to "When Isla Meets Luke Meets Isla", where Isla and Luke, having started their relationship, find that the path of true love rarely runs smooth. What are you supposed to do when you love somebody but you find that you have different plans for the future? And then Isla does something to Luke that anybody would find hard to forgive. Will Luke forgive Isla? Can Isla do anything to make it right again? The narrative, written in alternative viewpoints from Isla and Luke, and in a brilliantly readable stream-of-consciousness style, totally captures the voice of today's teenager.
From the Publisher
The sequel to 'When Isla meets Luke meets Isla' which was chosen as one of the top 5 teenage fiction books of the year!
The Telegraph, Saturday 22nd November 2003
Books of the Year
by William Leith
Rhian Tracey’s When Isla meets Luke meets Isla’ deals with two common problems – displacement and divorce. Isla, an Edinburgh girl who loves the beauty of the Scottish capital and the neatness of her bedroom, is forced to move, with her family, to a grotty house in Maidstone.
At school, she’s not a member of the girl gang called The Gaggle, who all smoke and wear pink hooded tops and lots of mascara.
Here, she meets Luke, her only hope. Luke has been feminised by what he calls "the inevitable" – his parents’ divorce and the fact of living with his mother.
"You find out far too much about women, especially middle aged women", he says.
A gritty and poignant story.
The Telegraph, Saturday 22nd November 2003
Books of the Year
by William Leith
Rhian Tracey’s When Isla meets Luke meets Isla’ deals with two common problems – displacement and divorce. Isla, an Edinburgh girl who loves the beauty of the Scottish capital and the neatness of her bedroom, is forced to move, with her family, to a grotty house in Maidstone.
At school, she’s not a member of the girl gang called The Gaggle, who all smoke and wear pink hooded tops and lots of mascara.
Here, she meets Luke, her only hope. Luke has been feminised by what he calls "the inevitable" – his parents’ divorce and the fact of living with his mother.
"You find out far too much about women, especially middle aged women", he says.
A gritty and poignant story.
From the Inside Flap
Praise for 'Isla and Luke make or break?'
" It took me right back to being sixteen and all the bitter sweet experiences of first time fumblings with boys! Written from a boy then a girl's point of
view, there is plenty here for teenagers of both sexes to enjoy.
Be a great read to give for Christmas"
CATHY HOPKINS, author of 'Mates, dates...' series
" It took me right back to being sixteen and all the bitter sweet experiences of first time fumblings with boys! Written from a boy then a girl's point of
view, there is plenty here for teenagers of both sexes to enjoy.
Be a great read to give for Christmas"
CATHY HOPKINS, author of 'Mates, dates...' series
About the Author
Rhian Tracey is a teacher. She is married, and lives in Northamptonshire.
Excerpted from Isla and Luke: Make or Break? by Rhian Tracey. Copyright © 2004. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
Isla is delighted and I think it fair to say a little delirious that I am going to Maidstone College. Much kissing of a passionate nature has ensued as a result of my news this I can confirm is not bad.
I don't know how its going to work out at college though. Some of me wants to be this really cool couple and other bits of me want to wait to see what its like when I get there.
I don't know how its going to work out at college though. Some of me wants to be this really cool couple and other bits of me want to wait to see what its like when I get there.
