A spellbinding story about chasing love, fighting family, losing
friends and starting all over again, from the internationally acclaimed
Lisa Moore.
Sixteen-year-old Flannery Malone has it bad. She's been in love with
Tyrone O'Rourke since the days she still believed in Santa Claus. But
Tyrone has grown from a dorky kid into an outlaw graffiti artist, the
rebel-with-a-cause of Flannery's dreams, literally too cool for school.
Which is a problem, since he and Flannery are partners for the
entrepreneurship class that she needs to graduate. And Tyrone's
vanishing act may have darker causes than she realizes.
Tyrone isn't Flannery's only problem. Her mother, Miranda, can't pay the
heating bills, let alone buy Flannery's biology book. Her little
brother, Felix, is careening out of control. And her
best-friend-since-forever, Amber, has fallen for a guy who is making her
forget all about the things she's always cared most about -- Flannery
included -- leading Amber down a dark and dangerous path of her own.
When Flannery decides to make a love potion for her entrepreneurship
project, rumors that it actually works go viral, and she suddenly has a
hot commodity on her hands. But a series of shattering events makes her
realize that real-life love is far more potent -- and potentially
damaging -- than any fairy-tale prescription.
Written in Lisa Moore's exuberant and inimitable style, Flannery is by
turns heartbreaking and hilarious, empowering and harrowing -- often all
on the same page. It is a novel whose spell no reader will be able to
resist.
