Felix made me miss my Kindergarten teaching years : 4 years old is such a great age. Really. They're happy all the time (except when they're not, but then, it's short). Sophie was born in London. She studied music at New College, Oxford, but after a year switched to Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She now lives in London, UK, with her husband and family.

The Primary School Library Alliance is calling on the government to match-fund the private investment it has brought into helping primary schools c... A terrific blend of comedy, romance, and psychological recovery in a contemporary YA novel sure to inspire and entertain Children's Books Council (US) Normally my writing process has a lot of planning – I don’t tend to write anything until I’ve got a full plan of the whole plot – which I put up on my wall on file cards. But Finding Audrey happened in a bit of a whirlwind. I wrote it in a month! So a lot of it came to me as I wrote, but I always knew it would be a story of recovery and would end in a positive place.But it was hilarious, it was messy, the parents were irritating beyond belief but I adored them. The social anxiety rep was okay. I did want more focus on it, but I appreciated that we also got to see Audrey in her own messy element, with her family and challenging her social anxiety. I've gone up a level. That's the only way I can describe it. (...) Yes, I've had one bad episode, but I didn't sink quite as low. Things weren't quite as dark." Your mum’s really like ...” He blinks nervously. “She’s like Goddess Warrior Enhanced Level Seven.” I also didn't like the fact that Audrey got herself off the medications by herself. It is something not anyone should ever do, and in the real life the consequences could be really bad (trust me, I know). I just hope that someone who's on medications while reading this book won't find the courage to do the same thing because Audrey did it. The reason I didn't give this book a full five star rating is (HERE COMES THE SPOILER PART) we never found out what really happened that triggered Audrey's anxiety.

So yeah. I wish I never read this book. Even though I understand that this book is unrealistic and wrong, it really pains me that a lot of people younger than me will go into this book expecting representation and a form of hope and come out with 1) an unrealistic expectation that one person can cure you 2) an even more unrealistic expectation that recovery will be fast and seamless.

Synopsis

The trouble is, depression doesn't come with handy symptoms like spots and a temperature, so you don't realize it at first. You keep saying "I'm fine" to people when you're not fine. You think you should be fine. You keep saying to yourself: "Why aren't I fine?" Audrey’s very wry and I love her observations on family life. That’s certainly one of the reasons why it was great to have her speak to the reader directly. I also wanted readers to realise that what you see on the outside of a person can be very different from the inside. If you saw Audrey from the outside you’d see a shy recluse, hiding from the world in dark glasses. But inside, she’s as feisty, brave, funny and forward-looking as anyone could be. Love interest? Adorable. Smile-inducing. I have no idea why I'm writing one-word sentences. I might be lazy. Major information : he write notes. End of story. It's all a gradual and realistic situation that, again, blends together the two topics brought up (and well researched) portions of this book: Anxiety and Gaming. PLUS, you could easily introduce a romance into this scenario, especially since it could be done very similar to how Linus and Audrey's romance began in the book.

But despite all of that, I was a very anxious kid. Overly-anxious. No one really noticed then - I didn't even notice myself. But I can remember all of my irrational fears, how long it would take me to calm down once I was scared, and how the smallest, most insignificant things would affect me greatly. Frank was my favorite. I liked his obsession with video games and his adaptability when it comes to playing them.

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