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Genre: Nominally YA\/NA, general fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n Release Date: 27 January 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n Publisher: Matador<\/strong><\/p>\n Kerryl Shaw has always kept a diary, but this one is different because she knows she is going to die.<\/p>\n A highly infectious and incurable virus spreads worldwide. Seventeen-year-old Kerryl lives with her family on a remote farm. They think they will be safe, but the danger advances. One day a stranger arrives, and it soon becomes apparent that he has brought the plague to their door.<\/p>\n Kerryl is sure it\u2019s only a matter of time before she catches the infection and dies, and decides to record what she thinks will be her final days. She realises that her diary will never be read, so she imagines a reader and calls him Adam. Loneliness and isolation affect the balance of her mind. Little by little Adam comes alive to her, and she sets off across the moor to meet him.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong> Introductions are boring, but unless I take time to explain things it will be confusing for you. Me first. Not very polite, I know, but it\u2019s probably the best place to start.<\/p>\n My name is Kerryl \u2013 or that\u2019s what my family and friends call me. My proper name is Cheryl. Cheryl Alison Shaw. They call me the Paradise Girl. Don\u2019t get excited \u2013 it sounds sexy but it\u2019s not. I\u2019m seventeen years old and still a virgin. I\u2019m not a nun, I\u2019ve been out with loads of boys \u2013 Tim, Mark (two of them), Nathan, Jake, Tristram, Steve \u2013 but I wasn\u2019t that keen on any of them and they didn\u2019t last. The exception was Mark II. He was older than me, fearsomely good looking and he had a nice car. I thought he was really hot. When I wasn\u2019t with him I was thinking about him. But it seems he wasn\u2019t as keen as me, and one day my best friend, Josie, told me that he was going out with Monica Woodbridge and saying I was a frigid cow. It seems everybody knew I\u2019d been dumped and I was the last to find out.<\/p>\n The worst thing was the shock. I thought Monica Woodbridge was my friend. As well as that, all the girls in our group had been going out with the same boys for a long time, but I seemed to keep a boyfriend for only a few weeks. Was there something wrong with me? To be honest, I\u2019m not a great beauty. I don\u2019t mean I\u2019m a train wreck or anything. I\u2019m not bad looking, but I\u2019m not like Charlene Brooker or Suzy Simmonds. They\u2019re electric, both of them. Charlene could be a model, and Suzy\u2019s always surrounded by a gang of drooling boys.<\/p>\n They\u2019re gone now: Charlene, Suzy, Josie, Monica, all of them.<\/p>\n Sorry for the break there. I had to stop to have a little weep. I\u2019ll try not to do too much of that. I suppose I can console myself with one thing: with everyone else dead, I must be the most beautiful girl in the world!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n AMAZON UK – <\/strong><\/span>http:\/\/amzn.to\/2zMAq9a<\/a><\/p>\n AMAZON US – <\/strong><\/span>http:\/\/amzn.to\/2zMdQQb<\/a><\/p>\n TROUBADOR – <\/strong><\/span>http:\/\/bit.ly\/2ATT0wq<\/a><\/p>\n WATERSTONES – <\/strong><\/span>http:\/\/bit.ly\/2jw1uFR<\/a><\/p>\n WH SMITH – <\/strong><\/span>http:\/\/bit.ly\/2A48wbL<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n BUY DIRECT FROM THE AUTHOR AND GET IT SIGNED!<\/span> <\/strong>http:\/\/bit.ly\/2hE3lHY<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Phill Featherstone was born and brought up in the north of England. He trained as a teacher and taught English in comprehensive schools. In the late 1990s he and his wife, Sally, founded a publishing company specialising in education books for the early years. In 2008 the business was acquired by Bloomsbury, after which they moved to Yorkshire. He now spends his time writing, travelling, on the arts and on conservation work. Phill has degrees from Cambridge and Leicester Universities, and is a member of the Society of Authors. Paradise Girl is his third novel, although the first to be published.<\/p>\n Paradise Girl recently won a CHILL WITH A BOOK AWARD<\/strong>!<\/p>\n Facebook:<\/span> <\/strong>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhillFeathers\/<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter: @PhillFeathers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Goodreads Author Page:<\/span> <\/strong>https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/16347499.Phill_Featherstone<\/a><\/p>\n Blog:<\/span> <\/strong>http:\/\/phillfeatherstone.net\/news\/<\/a><\/p>\n Website: <\/strong><\/span>http:\/\/phillfeatherstone.net<\/a><\/p>\nEXTRACT<\/span><\/h2>\n
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