Phosphorescence - Tapa blanda

Fourteen-year-old Lola Jordan feels like a useless misfit among her cool city classmates. Until this term she's lived a quiet country life on the windswept saltmarshes of north Norfolk. She's mortified when her lyrical essay on phosphorescence is read out in front of the whole school. But much worse is the ensuing geography trip to her childhood home. Camping on the famous island nature reserve run by her father, a bunch of designer-clad teenagers, including the boy of Lola's dreams, runs wild. But in the midst of chaos, excitement, danger and snogging in the sparkling midnight sea, Lola learns that the best way to belong is to be an individual.

Raffaella Barker is the author of acclaimed adult novels HENS DANCING, SUMMERTIME and GREEN GRASS, in which she writes brilliantly and comically about eccentric characters and family life in the Norfolk countryside. She is a regular columnist for the Sunday Telegraph and Country Life magazine. PHOSPHORESCENCE is her first novel for teenagers - and is perfectly funny, insightful and romantic.