Happy Girl Lucky

by Holly Smale

Overview

Introducing The Valentines – Happy Girl Lucky, the first book in the hilarious new romantic-comedy series by Holly Smale, author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Geek Girl books.

Fame – it runs in the family!

The Valentine sisters – Hope, Faith and Mercy – have everything: fame, success, money and beauty. But what Hope wants most of all is love, and it doesn’t matter how far she has to go to find it.

Except real life isn't like the movies. Unless of course you're a Valentine . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008404918
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	02/02/2021
Series:	The Valentines , #1
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.40(d)
Age Range:	11 - 17 Years

About the Author

HOLLY SMALE wanted to write from the age of five when she discovered that books didn’t grow on trees like apples. Her passion for stories led her on a number of adventures, including modelling, teaching children in Japan, PR and backpacking across dozens of countries around the world. She has a degree in English literature and an MA in Shakespeare and Feminism from Bristol University.

The Valentines series is the blockbusting follow-up to the number-one, internationally bestselling and acclaimed Geek Girl series, which sold over three million copies in thirty languages and won the Teen and Young Adult category of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.

Happy Girl Lucky is the first in a brand-new series that follows the famous Valentine sisters.

Editorial Reviews

PRAISE FOR GEEK GIRL:

“Harriet's comical and cringeworthy misadventures in the world of fashion are guaranteed to get you laughing.” The Week Junior

“Genius.” MaximumPop!

“You can't fail to like Harriet.” Parents in Touch

"A smart, sassy and very funny debut." The Bookseller

"Loved GEEK GIRL. Wise, funny and true, with a proper nerd heroine you're laughing with as much as at. Almost." James Henry, writer of Smack the Pony and Green Wing

"A feel-good satisfying gem that will have teens smiling from cover to cover, and walking a little taller after reading" Books for Keeps

“I would highly recommend Geek Girl to anyone who likes a good laugh and enjoys a one-of-a-kind story.” Mia, Guardian Children’s Books website

From the Publisher

2021-02-23
Hope is an ostrich: She’s been “ostrichsized” by her family, but since she’s happy girl lucky, she doesn’t let it get her down.

Home-schooled, alone too much—perhaps the cause of her frequent malapropisms?—Londoner Hope is waiting to turn 16, at which point her celebrity family, the legendary acting dynasty the Valentines, will let her take acting roles, attend public events, and do interviews. Not that the paparazzi have been kind, what with reporting that her parents are divorcing. Hope is sure her parents have a loving relationship, and she’s eager to find “The One” for herself, too. By consulting horoscopes and filtering life events by rewriting them as swoony, romantic scenes in a film script, Hope creates a cheerful and unintentionally comic world where even her siblings’ criticisms of her (mostly) roll off her back. When she finally crosses paths with a special boy, he turns out to be self-absorbed, and it’s her father’s new girlfriend, of all people, who helps Hope open her eyes and truly experience life as it happens. Hope is ridiculously charming and, ultimately, not so daft after all. As for her unconventional turns of phrase? She may actually be expressing precisely what she means. Hope’s mother is cued as White; her father is African American.

Hilarious and delightful. (Fiction. 12-16)

Kirkus Reviews