A Girl Can Dream

Author(s): Emily Barr

Young Adult

Love story and un-love story intertwine in the brand-new thriller-romance from the YA bestselling author of The One Memory of Flora Banks and Ghosted. Venice, 2024 Hazel has managed to escape her destructive relationship with her older boyfriend. In the dreamy Italian sunshine, she is able to stop looking over her shoulder in case Freddie has followed her. But there's a girl she keeps seeing in the city. A girl with beautiful eyes. And whenever Hazel sees her and their eyes meet, something strange seems to happen . . . England, 2022 Hazel goes to see an up-and-coming local band. She locks eyes with the lead singer, Freddie, and he finds her afterwards and slips her his number. She's not even 16. He is ten years older. She knows it's stupid. She didn't even think it was boys she was into. But it's everything a girl could dream of. Until it's absolutely not . . .


Product Information

The One Memory of Flora Banks, published in 2017, was Emily Barr's first novel for young adults and was a global hit, publishing in 27 languages. Before that, she worked as a journalist in London but always hankered after a quiet room and a book to write. She went travelling for a year, which gave her an idea for a novel set in the world of backpackers in Asia. This became BACKPACK, an adult thriller which won the WH Smith New Talent Award, and she has since written eleven more adult novels published in the UK and around the world. She lives in Cornwall with her husband and their children.

General Fields

  • : 9780241643426
  • : Penguin Random House Children's UK
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 31 August 2024
  • : 3.5 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Emily Barr
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823.92