Oliver's absence split us wide open, dividing our neighborhood along a fault line strong enough to cause an earthquake. An earthquake would have been better. At least during an earthquake, you understand why you're shaking.
Emmy and Oliver were going to be best friends forever, or maybe even more, before their futures were ripped apart. But now Oliver is back, and he's not the skinny boy-next-door that used to be Emmy's best friend. Now he's the boy who got kidnapped. A stranger - a totally hot stranger! - with a whole history that Emmy knows nothing about.
But is their story still meant to be? Or are they like the pieces of two different puzzles - impossible to fit together?
Emmy and Oliver
A hilarious, fun, heart-wrenching contemporary about Oliver, a young boy who is kidnapped by his father and comes back ten years later, re-connecting with his family and old friends- most importantly, his best friend Emmy. A wonderfully weaved novel, Emmy and Oliver has entire rants on social sexism, deals with homophobia in an upper-class "traditional" family, and has a wonderful female friendship that support and love each other. One of the best contemporaries I've read in a long time. - Alison
Blacktown, 10/05/2016
