Goodbye, Perfect
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Thank you to my family, especially my parents, who never made me feel like ‘perfect’ was desirable, let alone essential.
And thank you to Anna, Lora and Tom, my three favourite people. You make me, my life and my books better, and I love you very much.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sara Barnard lives in Brighton and does all her best writing on trains. She loves books, book people and book things. She has been writing ever since she was too small to reach the ‘on’ switch on the family’s Amstrad computer. She gets her love of words from her dad, who made sure she always had books to read and introduced her to the wonders of second-hand bookshops at a young age.
Sara is trying to visit every country in Europe, and has managed to reach thirteen with her best friend. She has also lived in Canada and worked in India.
Praise for Sara Barnard:
‘Beautiful Broken Things is the book I’ve been waiting for. It made me want to go and rugby-tackle my best friends and give them a giant hug. It’s a beautiful tale of the power and complexities of female friendship’ Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet?
‘Beautiful Broken Things is a book that the YA world desperately needs – a book about the beauty, passion and extremities of female friendship’ Alice Oseman, author of Solitaire
‘Starkly realistic and ultimately uplifting, Beautiful Broken Things is a compelling tale of pain and redemption, growing up and growing together, and finding empowerment and strength in friendship’ Catherine Doyle, author of Vendetta
‘Stories about female friendships are hard to come by, especially ones with no romance, but Beautiful Broken Things fills that gap in an intensely compelling and passionate way’ Lauren James, author of The Next Together
‘A gorgeous, bluntly honest story of friendship, hardships and rebuilding. This book captures that feeling of be-all and end-all best-friendship so brilliantly’ charlieinabook.weebly.com
‘Armed with a penchant for incredible warmth, intense drama and fabulously down-to-earth writing, Sara Barnard makes it clear that contemporary doesn’t have to be sugar-coated to be sweet; that books with serious issues don’t have to be defined by what we think we know about them, and most of all that some stories don’t have to involve a romance to be about love’ Arianne, Daisy Chain Book Reviews
‘Beautiful Broken Things is a stunning look at the friendship between three girls. It feels so, so realistic’ Jim Dean, Teens on Moon Lane
‘Barnard has a real talent for honest, flawed characters who you cannot help but fall in love with’ Bookseller
‘Stunning’ Guardian
Books by Sara Barnard
Beautiful Broken Things
A Quiet Kind of Thunder
Goodbye, Perfect
First published 2018 by Macmillan Children’s Books
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