Matched Up

The new novel by Carnegie Medal nominated author Jenny Ireland. Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Jennifer Niven. Now she wasn't Molly Cassidy, St Anne's pain-in-the-hole princess. She was nine-year-old Molly who was my best friend in the whole world. Nobody had put her in the recovery position. All these people and they'd just left her like that . . . I held her hand until the ambulance came.<BR>Finbar and Molly live next door to each other. When they were children, they spent hours and hours together. They were best friends. Until they weren't.<BR><BR>Now 18, Fin and Molly move in very different circles. Molly is popular, pretty, dating the most handsome boy in the whole school. Fin has one friend and he's pretty sure he hates his dad and his little sister.<BR><BR>At a party one night, though, they're pulled together in a way neither of them expects and then follows a year that will see them experiencing life-changing challenges, friendships, love and everything in between.<BR>Praise for Jenny Ireland:<BR>'Everything a YA contemporary novel should be: full of warmth, growth, and romance . . . beautifully relatable and a powerful reminder of the importance of empathy' - Paper Lanterns<BR>'Romance with substance' - Irish Times<BR><BR>Jenny Ireland, nominated for the Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing 2024<BR>Selected for the UKLA Book Awards Shortlist for 2025<BR>

Juliet believes girls like her - girls with arthritis - don't get their own love stories. She exists at the edges of her friends' social lives, skipping parties to play online chess under a pseudonym with strangers around the world. There, she isn't just 'the girl with crutches'.<BR><BR>Ronan is the new kid: good looking, smart, a bad boy plagued by guilt over what happened to his brother Ciaran. Chesslife is his escape.<BR><BR>Juliet thinks Ronan thinks someone like Ronan could never be interested in someone like her - and she wouldn't want him to be anyway - he always acts like he's cooler than everyone else.<BR><BR>Little do they know they've already discovered each other online, and have more in common than they think . . .

The brand-new book from Diverse Book Award winning author, Jenny Ireland.<BR><BR>When wild-child Margot is forced to go to on a summer holiday to the South of France with her family, she's definitely not happy about it.<BR><BR>Enter Félix and Antoine. They are polar opposites. Félix: mild mannered, caramel haired and sweet. Antoine: dark haired. Tattooed. Arrogant.<BR><BR>The only thing they seem to have in common is that they're both ridiculously attractive, and they both have a thing for Margot. But there's something much more significant about them that's going to come as a real shock to Margot . . .<BR><BR><BR>Also by Jenny Ireland:<BR><BR>THE FIRST MOVE<BR>"I LOVED IT!! Amazing disability representation. Incredible character development. Gripping, fast-paced plot. This is YA romance at its finest!!" - Goodreads reader