Lila Mackay is Very Misunderstood
Lila Mackay is Very Misunderstood
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A hilarious diary-style clean teen romance comedy
“For fans of Lottie Brooks, ready to move on but not sure where to turn next, we've got just the ticket. This laugh-out-loud funny, diary style comedy is perfectly pitched for tweens and early teens. We predict a big hit!”
~Sarah
Fourteen-year-old Emily is gloomily spending the summer with her mum’s best friend Uncle Tom, helping him renovate his house, instead of being at home hoping the gorgeous Toby will ask her out. Worse, she’s broken her phone and left her iPad at her dad’s house. How is she supposed to survive without her tech, her BFF and her social life? No one understands her despair, least of all the boomers.
Then she finds her mum’s old diary. MASSIVE CRINGE. But as Emily starts to read, she’s stunned to discover that her mum was once a teenager too. A nineties teenager called Lila MacKay, who was VERY MISUNDERSTOOD. It’s a long-forgotten era of weird fashions, TV shows and music Emily’s never heard of. There are boys too, notably cute Park Boy Tom and her mum’s dorky neighbour Weird Nicky. And as she becomes more and more invested in Lila’s teenage life, Emily begins to wonder if perhaps she and her mother are not so different after all…
Gill Sims is the author of the hugely successful parenting blog and Facebook site ‘Peter and Jane’. Her first book Why Mummy Drinks was the bestselling hardback fiction debut of 2017, spending over six months in the top ten of the Sunday Times bestsellers chart, and was shortlisted for Debut Novel of the Year in the British Book Awards. Her globally bestselling Why Mummy … series has now sold over a million copies. This is her first YA book.
Number of pages: 352
Reading age guide: 12 to 14 years
Publication date: 14th August 2025
Publisher: Electric Monkey
ISBN: 9780008513788
Format: Paperback
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