Product Description

Jess and Fred are finally an 'item'. They have spent the remainder of their summer holidays just as they planned to, creating some fabulous comedy routines together. Until one fateful morning in the park just before term starts when Fred casually mentions that he is not sure that he wants to go out with Jess any more. Jess is outraged! As ever, Sue Limb's narrative is fresh, funny and effervescent, simultaneously capturing the agonies, the indecisions, the wrong moves, the misunderstandings that are all part of a first-ever relationship. This novel is a brilliantly engrossing read.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104072 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
'Sue Limb's latest installment in the saga of Jess' relationship is as funny as ever ... It is the type of teenage fiction I wish had been available when I was 15.' --Georgina Henratty, Publishing News

`There are the same hallmarks of quality - endearing and credible characters, humorous but telling explorations of teenage preoccupations and laugh out loud wit ... Would it be too much to hope for a fourth book to add to this splendid series?' --Books for Keeps

`Hilarious and spot-on in how it captures those boyfriend blues' --Mizz

`Funny and witty with impressive use of original description, Girl 16 is an excellent teenage read' --Big Issue - The North

`A hilarious catalogue of disasters, in the same vein as Bridget Jones ... will be thoroughly enjoyed by most teenage girls'
--School Librarian

About the Author
Sue's writing career started in London around 1980, with various assignments for magazines and newspapers, and her first radio work, BIG AND LITTLE, which won a Sony Award for Best Children's Programme. Other radio projects have included the series UP THE GARDEN PATH, THE WORDSMITHS AT GORSEMERE, and THE SIT-CROM. Various radio shows have invited sue aboard as a guest, including: STOP THE WEEK, A WORD IN EDGEWAYS, QUOTE UNQUOTE, SLIGHTLY FOXED, A GOOD READ, LOOSE ENDS and WOMAN'S HOUR. UP THE GARDEN PATH was adapted by Sue for television and three series were produced by Humphrey Barclay and Granada Television. It started off Sue's first novel, followed soon after by a sequel, LOVE'S LABOURS, in which the comprehensive school teacher Izzy gets even more comprehensively entangled. LOVE FORTY was Sue's autobiographical account of going to live in the country, the birth of her daughter (1985) and the glorious dawn of middle age. A more recent novel, SHEEP'S EYES AND HOGWASH, which one might call an unexpectedly romantic version of pastoral, is published by Heinemann. Children's Books include BIG AND LITTLE, CHINA LEE, ME JANE, BIG TROUBLE and MR LOOPY AND MRS SNOOPY. COME BACK GRANDMA is published by Random House and was shortlisted for the Smarties Prize. This is Sue's second book for Bloomsbury. She lives on a remote organic farm near Nailsworth in Gloucestershire.

Customer Reviews

So Funny
Ive read all the books in this series so far and I couldn't put them down. I reccomend this series to anyone, it's a MUST read. Jess is a typical teenage girl. She thinks shes in love with ben jones until she falls for her best friend... The series is written comically and all three books had me laughing the whole way through.

Fabulous Read
This book was a very good read for me. It has plenty of humour to keep you interested throughout the whole book. it is a total example of teenage life ust trying to fit in and be noticed not just by friends but BOYS and believe there is plenty of Boys!When Jess has found out that her grandma is moving in and she has to take her own room she has to take a tiny room upstairs but that is the least of her problems crushes, big buts, CCTV, and plenty to keep u interested till the end. This was a book i thoroughly enjoyed and u will too just read the first few chapters and you'll be hooked.

Girl 16 pants on fire
I love this book, I jsut reading it this morning, I have read all three books in the last three weeks, totally birlliant I have loved each one!
They are great books, so funny and you get the end and you feel so wrapped up the world, these books let you get the know the characters really well and its a believeable story all way though, I hope there's more to come from Jess Jordan