Eleanor & Park

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What to expect

Eleanor is the new girl in town, and she's never felt more alone. All mismatched clothes, mad red hair and chaotic home life, she couldn't stick out more if she tried.

Then she takes the seat on the bus next to Park. Quiet, careful and - in Eleanor's eyes - impossibly cool, Park's worked out that flying under the radar is the best way to get by.

Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall in love. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you're 16, and you have nothing and everything to lose.

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, ELEANOR & PARK is funny, sad, shocking and true - an exquisite nostalgia trip for anyone who has never forgotten their first love.

Read by Rebecca Lowman and Sunil Malhotra

(p) 2013 Penguin Random House LLC

Critics Review

  • Reminded me not just what it’s like to be young and in love, but what it’s like to be young and in love with a book

    John Green, author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
  • The pure, fear-laced, yet steadily maturing relationship Eleanor and Park develop is urgent and breathtaking and, of course, heartbreaking, too

    BOOKLIST starred review
  • ‘If you haven’t come across it before, we very much recommend Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor And Park, which is a gut-punch of a love story that we downloaded and raced through in one train journey.’

    EMERALD STREET

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