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Northern Soul
- Author
- Phil Earle
- Narrator
- Phil Earle
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date
- 4 January 2024
- Run Time
- 1 hour 35 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: First / new experiences and life changes, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Dating, relationships, romance and love, Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
What to expect
From award-winning author Phil Earle comes the hilariously agonising account of one teenage boy’s disastrous attempts to win the heart of the cool new girl at school.
Up until now, Marv’s uneventful life has revolved around playing football with his best mate, Jimmy. But things take a turn for the dramatic with the arrival at school of new girl Carly Stonehouse.
Marv falls in love at first sight, but there’s no way a girl like Carly will ever look at him. Unless, perhaps, he enlists help from a very unusual source.
Follow Marv on his hilariously agonising quest for love, featuring his Croc-loving dad, a fast-food addicted musical idol from the past and some of the most cringeworthy song lyrics you might ever have heard …
Critics Review
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"A sweet and touching tale pitched firmly at boys of an awkward age … crashes and burns in amusing ways that sit somewhere on the teenage cringe scale between Adrian Mole and The Inbetweeners … Redding's appearance gives the story a brilliantly irreverent edge." – The Times
"Earle is brilliant at capturing the excruciating realities of a teenage crush" – The Telegraph
"A novella with a nod to Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole books … Marv's pursuit of his crush is by turns tender and toe-curling, perfectly capturing all the agony and awkwardness of unrequited love." – The Observer
“Delightfully, toe-curlingly cringe for any teen who’s ever felt useless around their crush. Hilarious and heart-warming” – Holly Bourne
“A brilliantly funny and achingly real story that perfectly captures the life of a teenage boy in all of its awkward, cringy glory. I absolutely loved it!” – Simon James Green
“Phil Earle’s hilarious first-love story is for everyone who’s ever dared to fall head-over-heels. It’s note-perfect portrayal of discovering romance is guaranteed to make you laugh, cringe and cheer” – Keith Gray
“Charmingly awkward, angsty and very funny. Northern Soul will strike a chord with all of us who have embarrassed ourselves for love” – Jenny Pearson
“Funny, sharp and full of the hilarious horrors of teenage life. No one can tell a story quite like Phil Earle” – Katya Balen
“Awkward, tender and dull of soul. A Spin the Bottle merry-go-round of a story” – Steven Camden
“A joyous read!” – Lisa Thompson
“A tale of young love, dating disasters, and the ghost of Otis Redding eating kebabs, this was excrutiating and hilarious – and I never want to be a teenager again” – Alastair Chisholm
“I absolutely loved it. It’s so sweet, funny, relatable, well paced and original …” – Sarah Crossan
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Details
- Author
- Phil Earle
- Narrator
- Phil Earle
- Duration
- 1 hour 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 January 2024
- ISBN
- 9780008686222
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: First / new experiences and life changes, Children’s / Teenage fiction: Relationship stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Dating, relationships, romance and love, Children’s / Teenage fiction: School stories, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Friends and friendships
Synopsis
From award-winning author Phil Earle comes the hilariously agonising account of one teenage boy’s disastrous attempts to win the heart of the cool new girl at school. Up until now, Marv’s uneventful life has revolved around playing football with his best mate, Jimmy. But things take a turn for the dramatic with the arrival at school of new girl Carly Stonehouse. Marv falls in love at first sight, but there’s no way a girl like Carly will ever look at him. Unless, perhaps, he enlists help from a very unusual source. Follow Marv on his hilariously agonising quest for love, featuring his Croc-loving dad, a fast-food addicted musical idol from the past and some of the most cringeworthy song lyrics you might ever have heard …
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