Every year, Tilly dreams of the dad she’s never known showing up for her birthday. But he never does.
When she wakes up on the morning of her sixteenth birthday dadless yet again, she knows it’ll never happen. In fact, it’s her worst birthday ever because her grandmother died a few months ago, her mum is working again, and the boy she’s in love with—the ridiculously gorgeous Josh—refuses to break up with his drama-queen girlfriend and notice her instead.
Then Tilly’s dad does show up, shocking everyone, and she works out an awful truth: Her mum and her grandma lied to her. For sixteen years! Tilly is drowning in her family’s lies.
Worse, these feelings for her neighbour Zack—these stupid, flustering, more-than-friends feelings she’s been trying to ignore—mean she’s also lying to herself.
Young Adult, Romance, Mental Health, Wellbeing
About The Author
Jodie Benveniste is an author and psychologist who writes heart-expanding young adult contemporary fiction that helps you to new levels of self-understanding and emotional healing.
She writes about love and friendships, family relationships, wellbeing, and mental health healing, introducing you to your amazing inner world and it’s hidden depths. She’s been a psychologist in private practice, trusted parenting expert, organizational consultant, academic researcher, and Chair of the Board of an Independent School.
But, at heart, she’s always been a writer. She now writes entertaining, unputdownable and heart-warming fiction that has healing at its heart.
