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The Memo (Paperback)
Lauren Mechling, Rahcel Dodes
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R464
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Do you ever feel like you have no idea what you're doing in life - and
wonder if you just didn't get the memo?
Jenny Green is dreading her Class of 2007 reunion. While her friends
are killing it, Jenny's promising career as an artisanal baker went up
in flames (literally) and her deadbeat, commitment-phobe boyfriend is
cheating on her with their swishy-ponytailed neighbour. She feels like
she didn't get the memo... As it turns out, she didn't.
Begrudgingly back at university, she receives a text from an unlisted
number: Jenny Green - please collect your memo. Hidden on her old
campus is a secret female-led organisation providing memos to select
students; blueprints for success.
The first time around, Jenny didn't receive hers. Now she's being given
a second chance - the opportunity to rewrite her past, undo her worst
mistakes and fix her mess of a life. But at what price?
A hilarious, achingly relatable, bittersweet and addictive page-turner
about lifelong friendships, new loves, second chances and what it
really means to live your best life. The Memo will enchant fans of
Dolly Alderton's Ghosts and Rebecca Serle's In Five Years.
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The Memo
Lauren Mechling, Rahcel Dodes
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R607
R497
Discovery Miles 4 970
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After two glorious (though somewhat hectic) semesters with her dad
in New York City, Mimi must make good on her promise to her
parents: summer break with her mom. But it seems going back to her
cozy old life in Houston isn't in the cards. Instead, she's dragged
off to Berlin, where her mother's been offered a fellowship. After
a few weeks of a nightmare nanny job, it becomes clear that Mimi's
European vacation isn't much of a vacation after all. On the verge
of a nervous breakdown, she receives a call from Lily Morton, her
friend from New York, who invites her to London, where an
internship at a family friend's magazine awaits. Soon Mimi is at it
again--living it up with glamorous friends, pursuing a new crush,
and chasing down celebrities at her very entertaining job. For a
while, Mimi's convinced she has it made. Never before has fitting
in been so easy. If only it could stay that way. Mimi may have
gotten a handle on the Empire State--but that's nothing compared to
the state of the empire!
After a tumultuous first semester, Mimi Schulman thinks she's ready
to give social climbing a rest and settle into the groove of New
York's wacky Baldwin School. She's eager to start over with her
friends, reconnect with her dad, and make headway with Max
Roth--the hottest guy in tenth grade.
But when an assignment for the school paper turns scandalous and
spirals out of control, Mimi finds little time to enjoy her new and
improved existence. Instead, she embarks on a roller coaster ride
through the underbelly of the New York art world, from the VIP
lounge of a shady nightclub to a private Caribbean island populated
with washed-up TV stars and fifteen-second celebrities. As answers
keep slipping through her fingers, Mimi begins to wonder if she'll
ever manage to pin down the story and get on with her life. And if
so, will her life still be there?
All Q, No A is a touching comedy that will appeal to anyone who
knows what it's like have more questions than answers. Fans of Mimi
Schulman beware! This book will keep you screaming with laughter
long after you've turned the last page.
After the collapse of her parents' marriage, Mimi Schulman leaves
her mother in Houston to look after her befuddled photographer
father in New York. Too preoccupied with family problems to think
much about her new life, Mimi's first hour at The Baldwin
School--an institution where teachers offer psychoanalysis in lieu
of grades and students hold cocktail parties in the bathroom
between classes--leaves her spinning.
When Sam, her childhood best friend, bets her she can't befriend
the "cool girls," Mimi accepts the challenge, only to discover that
social climbing in New York is no easy task. Fitting in with the
blond, all-American popular girls back in Texas was nothing
compared to joining Baldwin's clique of raccoon-eyed waifs.
Rubbing shoulders with the offspring of diplomats and celebrities,
all with secrets and dysfunctions that put her own domestic worries
to shame, Mimi finds herself in one bizarre situation to the
next--a fake-ID deli, a topless bar, a jacuzzi in Trump Tower--and
in the position of winning a bet that threatens to make her lose
sight of herself.
A coming-of-age story about friendship and betrayal, about brutal
honesty and its consequences, The Rise and Fall of a 10th-Grade
Social Climber is a novel with heart and a wicked sense of humor.
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