{"product_id":"9781529058185","title":"Slingshot","description":"Author: Mercedes Helnwein\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529058185\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Pan Macmillan UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 27 Apr 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 416\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcidly funny and compulsively readable, Mercedes Helnwein’s debut novel Slingshot is a story about two people finding each other and then screwing it all up. See also: soulmate, friendship, stupidity, sex, bad poetry, and all the indignities of being in love for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nGrace Welles had resigned herself to the particular loneliness of being fifteen and stuck at a third-tier boarding school in the swamps of Florida, when she accidentally saves the new kid in her class from being beaten up. With a single aim of a slingshot, the monotonous mathematics of her life are obliterated forever…because now there is a boy in it that she never asked for. Wade Scholfield.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nWith Wade, Grace discovers a new way to exist. School rules are optional, life is bizarrely perfect, and conversations about wormholes can lead to make-out sessions that disrupt any logical stream of thought.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nSo why does Grace crush Wade’s heart into a million tiny pieces? And what are her options when she finally realizes that 1. The universe doesn’t revolve around her, and 2. Wade has been hiding a dark secret? Is Grace the only person unhinged enough to save him?\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nEleanor and Park meets Ladybird in this outstanding debut novel.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47845854576798,"sku":"TLD-9781529058185","price":16.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529058185.jpg?v=1781222994","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529058185","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}