Searching for Amy

Searching for Amy is a gripping coming-of-age story that tackles the issue of intimate image abuse with compassion and truth.

When Harry asked me to the party, it took less than thirty seconds to say yes.

I've spent every waking moment since regretting it.

Meet Amy, part-time barista at Jon's café - studies English, makes a perfect flat white, doesn't go out much, no social media presence. Almost like she has something to hide...

Back at school, Harry had seemed like the perfect person to lose her virginity to - good-looking, popular, and her best friend's cousin. The sex was consensual. The video, however, was not.

Now she's at uni, and all that is behind her - but she can't escape the feeling that anytime, anywhere, someone might recognise her.

How can you rebuild your life when there's no-one left you trust?

Amy's first person narrative moves between her present life at uni, working in a cafe and trying to forget what happened to her, and the story of how one night at a party changed her life. Suitable for readers of 15+, it has themes of sex, intimate image abuse and mild swearing. Of interest to any young people navigating adolescence and the internet, and any parents trying valiantly to do and say the right thing.

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Searching for Amy

Searching for Amy is a gripping coming-of-age story that tackles the issue of intimate image abuse with compassion and truth.

When Harry asked me to the party, it took less than thirty seconds to say yes.

I've spent every waking moment since regretting it.

Meet Amy, part-time barista at Jon's café - studies English, makes a perfect flat white, doesn't go out much, no social media presence. Almost like she has something to hide...

Back at school, Harry had seemed like the perfect person to lose her virginity to - good-looking, popular, and her best friend's cousin. The sex was consensual. The video, however, was not.

Now she's at uni, and all that is behind her - but she can't escape the feeling that anytime, anywhere, someone might recognise her.

How can you rebuild your life when there's no-one left you trust?

Amy's first person narrative moves between her present life at uni, working in a cafe and trying to forget what happened to her, and the story of how one night at a party changed her life. Suitable for readers of 15+, it has themes of sex, intimate image abuse and mild swearing. Of interest to any young people navigating adolescence and the internet, and any parents trying valiantly to do and say the right thing.

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Searching for Amy

Searching for Amy

by Becky Jones
Searching for Amy

Searching for Amy

by Becky Jones

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Searching for Amy is a gripping coming-of-age story that tackles the issue of intimate image abuse with compassion and truth.

When Harry asked me to the party, it took less than thirty seconds to say yes.

I've spent every waking moment since regretting it.

Meet Amy, part-time barista at Jon's café - studies English, makes a perfect flat white, doesn't go out much, no social media presence. Almost like she has something to hide...

Back at school, Harry had seemed like the perfect person to lose her virginity to - good-looking, popular, and her best friend's cousin. The sex was consensual. The video, however, was not.

Now she's at uni, and all that is behind her - but she can't escape the feeling that anytime, anywhere, someone might recognise her.

How can you rebuild your life when there's no-one left you trust?

Amy's first person narrative moves between her present life at uni, working in a cafe and trying to forget what happened to her, and the story of how one night at a party changed her life. Suitable for readers of 15+, it has themes of sex, intimate image abuse and mild swearing. Of interest to any young people navigating adolescence and the internet, and any parents trying valiantly to do and say the right thing.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781068481000
Publisher: ELM Books
Publication date: 05/25/2025
Pages: 266
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range: 15 - 18 Years

About the Author

Becky Jones was born in Kendal and lives in Oxfordshire. She is a mother of two who can almost remember working in cafes and going to sixth form parties rather than waiting outside to drive her children home. Unearthing her teenage diary in the loft reminded her she'd been dreaming of writing fiction for even longer than the twenty years she'd spent editing children's English Language textbooks. So she stopped prevaricating and started writing, and with a little help from a Jericho Writers course and lots of support from family and friends, she produced Searching for Amy, her debut novel.
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