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Love Notes for Freddie

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What to expect

Marnie FitzPatrick is a reclusive sixth-former from Hertfordshire with a dysfunctional family, a penchant for Pythagoras' Theorem and an addiction to doughnuts and gin. Julie Crewe is a disillusioned maths teacher who lives vicariously through the girls she teaches, yet who once danced barefoot through Central Park with a man called Jo she has never been able to forget.

This is the story of what happened in the summer of 1967, when the sun burned down on the roof of the Shredded Wheat factory, and a boy called Freddie Friday danced to the records he had stolen. This is about first love, and last love, and all the strange stuff in between. This is what happens when three people are bound together by something that can't be calculated or explained by any equation.

This is what happened when they saw the open door.

(P)2015 WF Howes Ltd

Critics Review

I so enjoyed this emotional, engaging, vivid and different coming-of-age story . . . The thought-provoking narrative twists between Marnie's and Julie's points of view, and is beautifully written, intelligent and gripping
Daily Mail
A beautiful tale of first loves, secret passions and, er, maths
Heat
It seems there is a ready audience for novels set in the relatively recent past, with characters' quaint attitudes and period detail of clothes and music forming a large part of attraction - nostalgia-lit? This fine example of the genre offers intelligent, undemanding entertainment, which is sometimes all you need on a hot summer's day
Irish Examiner
Author Eva Rice
Narrator Jessica Ball, Liza Ross
Duration 11 hours and 2 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781848668799
Format Audiobook
Publisher Quercus
Genre Contemporary romance, Historical fiction, Local and family history, nostalgia, Modern and contemporary fiction, Nostalgia: general
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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