Also includes: a relentlessly funny section where Selin moves to a remote Hungarian village over the summer holidays to be close to her love interest Ivan – a romantic gesture which, predictably, doesn’t exactly go to plan. The IdiotĪnother novel about a bewildered Harvard freshman! This time it is Selin, a confused Turkish-American from New Jersey, who gets to university and finds herself perplexed by the ordeals of adulthood. Rennison skewered the absurdity of being a teenage girl with hilarity but also tenderness – it always felt like she was laughing with you, not at you, and thus she made it possible – just – to see the funny side of such horrors as embarrassing parents and eyebrow plucking disasters. Louise Rennison’s riotous series about Georgia Nicholson and her “ace gang” of friends underscored my teenage years, to the extent that I still steal Georgia’s catchprase and think of myself as “having a Nervy B” whenever I’m feeling on edge.
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