The Boy You Always Wanted

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“Totally in love with this novel.” Loan Le, author of A Pho Love StoryA girl, a boy, a grandfather and a plan. The girl: Francine. Model teenager, dutiful granddaughter, absolutely no chill.The grandfather: Francine’s beloved a gung. He has one final wish, a male heir to carry on the family traditions. It’s an outdated idea, but Francine loves him, and she has a plan to bring him the boy he always wanted. The boy: Ollie. Family friend, former crush, no idea how Francine has convinced him to get mixed up in her off-the-wall, and totally sexist, honorary grandson plan.The plan: might work. But as Ollie and Francine’s worlds collide, their secrets get tangled, and so do their feelings. Sometimes what you really want, isn’t at all what you expected.

Additional information

Weight 0.309 kg
Dimensions 2.3 × 13 × 19.8 cm
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Language

Pages

368

publisher

Year Published

2023-8-3

Imprint

For Ages

14-17

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1474989748

About The Author

Michelle Quach is a graphic designer and writer living in Los Angeles. She's Chinese Vietnamese American and a graduate of Harvard University, where she studied history and literature. She loves rom-coms, characters who don't always do the right thing, and any dog that kind of looks like her dog. Not Here To Be Liked is her first novel.

Michelle Quach's effortlessly flowing prose is steeped in love and kindness. Readers will rejoice as they witness Francine and Ollie movingly come to accept their families, each other, and most important, themselves. Totally in love with this novel.

Other text

Love blossoms in the unlikeliest of places when Francine persuades her secret crush Ollie to befriend her ageing grandfather.

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