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Have Yourself a Messy Little Christmas

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When Theo Grey goes to stay with her estranged sister Juliet in the city, she is excited to reconnect, and to live her best bisexual life. She wants to go out and kiss as many girls as she can. If only she could get the beautiful, funny, kind, and fellow bisexual, Otis out of her head…

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ISBN: 9781788958455 Category: Children's - Young Readers Tags: Children's / Teenage fiction: Family & home stories, Children's / Teenage fiction: Romance & relationships stories, Children's / Teenage personal & social issues: divorce, separation, family
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It's Christmas in the city, and Theo Grey is ready to live her best bisexual life. She's escaped her overbearing parents and her small village to stay with her older sister (who she hasn't heard from in five years and who doesn't know she's coming…) and to go ever so slightly over the rails.

And while their reunion gets off to a tricky start, she and Juliet soon reconnect. Theo settles into her new life and makes friends, including the gorgeous, kind, funny, and fellow bisexual, Otis. Theo is ready to go out and kiss as many girls as she can – if only she could stop thinking about the ridiculous, beautiful man who gets her so completely…

A fun and festive rom-com, perfect for fans of Alice Oseman, Elle McNicoll, Lizzie Huxley-Jones and Ashley Herring Blake.

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Weight 0.284 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.7 cm
Author

Zoe, Quirke, Anna

Publisher

Little Tiger Press

Imprint

Little Tiger

Cover

Paperback

Pages

411

Language

English

Edition

Paperback original

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

Children – juvenile / Code: J

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