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|pages=288
|publisher=Bodley Head
|date=April 2012
|isbn=0370332369
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'''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013'''
Karl is seventeen and hopelessly caught in the throes of first love. The object of his affections is Fiorella, a girl who seems above him so many ways. Fiorella's family is both healthy and wealthy, while Karl's father is dead and his mother gets by but not much more. Fiorella is a bright girl on her way to university, while Karl is dyslexic and has left school to work as a blue collar apprentice plumber. Fiorella is articulate, while Karl is reserved.
[[After the Flood by L S Matthews]] is another super book about the nature of friendships between the old and the young. And if it's a spare, precise, elegant prose style you're after, then you could make a sea change in terms of topic and choose [[WE by John Dickinson]], a wonderful sci-fi epic.
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