Summer of Secrets

‘This sharp, laugh-packed take on Austen’s classic story will have you grinning from ear to ear at the romantic scrapes of the three Dashwood sisters.’
MIZZ

‘Blends timeless truths about human nature while tackling modern teenage problems.’
BOOKFEST

What would happen if the traumas of teenage life and love from Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey surfaced in the twenty-first century?

Caitlin Morland has always craved excitement. So when she wins an art scholarship to Mulberry Court College, she's delighted to be befriended by the glamorous Izzy Thorpe and intriguing Summer Tilney.

As Caitlin finds herself swept up in their exotic lives, she becomes determined to uncover the secrets surrounding Summer. An invitation to join the Tilneys in Italy provides the perfect opportunity…

Just Don’t Make a Scene, Mum!

Parents - Arrggh!

Jemma’s are out of date. They still think she should wear the hand-knitted jumper with little bears on it to school – and they call her ‘petal’ in public!

Laura’s are divorced. Gone is the lovely big house. Now it is a grotty little one. And her mum was seen kissing Melvyn outside Tesco…

Sumitha’s want her to keep their cultural traditions - which don’t include boys, make-up or a trendy hair cut…

Jon’s keep bragging about his academic brilliance - but in reality it’s not stellar, nor is it where his heart is…

Chelsea’s mum is a writer of ghastly features for the local paper, an agony aunt and a wearer of mini-skirts…

The five teenagers’ paths (and those of their mortifyingly embarrassing parents) cross and part throughout this hilarious book set in Leehampton.

The first book in the highly popular Leehampton series.

I Think I’ll Just Curl Up and Die!

They thought their parents couldn’t be more embarrassing – then they got worse!

And what could be worse than having a temperamental mother who is expecting a baby (and by Melvyn!), like Laura?

Perhaps having a father who is a ‘wannabe’ chef and a mother who writes about you in the local paper, like Chelsea?

What about Jemma’s parents, who tell her she’s too young to have a boyfriend in front of her boyfriend?

Or Sumitha’s who won’t stop telling her boyfriend how suitable he is?

And then there’s Jon’s mother, who seems to be getting on a bit too well with a fellow design student…

‘…juggles the humour, heartache and heavy-breathing with an easy balance of wit and sympathy’
THE GUARDIAN

The second book in the highly popular Leehampton series.

How Could You Do This To Me, Mum?

Do parents ever stop making you cringe?

Chelsea’s father sells soup from a van, which is bad enough, but he doesn’t have to park it on street corners for all her friends to see!

Jemma is determined to be an actress – so why can’t her parents be a bit more supportive?

Sumitha delights her parents by turning into a total swot – if only they knew the reason behind it…

Jon is sure he’s never going to impress Sumitha when his ghastly, keep-fit fanatic of a father keeps calling her the wrong name, and his born-again student mother spends all her time at demos!

Laura’s mother, pregnant and seemingly set on destroying the planet, forbids her to go on demos with the buff Daniel. Even worse, her father, now living with the Bestial Betsy, seems to be getting a little too keen on whisky…

The third book in the highly popular Leehampton series

Does Anyone Ever Listen?

Will parents ever learn?

Sumitha is being torn in two. She’s met the fittest boy ever and he’s offering her the chance of a lifetime – but her parents have other ideas . . .

Laura can’t bring herself to tell Jon that she wants to finish with him – that she has met someone else. She would love to talk to her mum about this, but her mum is too busy with the new baby.

Chelsea really needs her mum to help her, but her mum is far too busy panicking about her own life.

Jemma’s mum is finally chilling out, but now her father is intent on ruining her life by moving the family to the middle of nowhere.

Jon’s dad constantly makes fun of him and his disastrous love life. However, just when Jon is wishing he would disappear something unexpected happens…

A gripping end to the Leehampton series.

‘…will be read to death, passed around in bags and eventually “stolen”…I could carry on and on – wonderful.’
BOOKS FOR KEEPS

What a Week Omnibus Books 1-3

At last the first three books of the best-selling WHAT A WEEK series are back in print, and in one bumper volume! Four friends. Seven days. About a hundred things that can and (will go) wrong.

Meet the girls: Holly, Tansy, Jade and Cleo. Start with WHAT A WEEK TO FALL IN LOVE (where Holly decides to give a party without her parents and get Scott back), move on to WHAT A WEEK TO MAKE IT BIG (where Tansy finally discovers her mother’s biggest secret) and complete this collection with WHAT A WEEK TO BREAK FREE (where Jade decides to sort out her life by ‘escaping’ to an activities weekend…)

What a Week Omnibus Books 4-6

The second omnibus for this popular series.

Discover what happens next to Holly, Tansy, Jade and Cleo over the next three exciting books in the series.

Cleo decides she’s had enough of her drab image in What a Week to Make a Stand. It’s every girl for herself and friendships are tested when a handsome new stranger comes to town in What a Week to Play it Cool. And find out how home-truths are handled in What a Week to Make a Move, when Tansy tries to stop her ditsy mum from marrying the devious Henry.

What a Week to Take a Chance

The seventh book in the What a Week series, now published by Piccadilly Press

They’re back! Holly, Tansy, Jade and Cleo have gone up a year in school, but are their lives ever complicated!

Holly has decided exactly where her life is going (pity her parents can’t see the sense in her plans). Tansy finds the person she’s been looking for all her life – and begins to wish she had never bothered. Jade’s spirit of adventure gets the better of her and Cleo discovers that changing your image isn’t half as easy as the girlie magazines make out. One week, four girls – and a zillion disasters and laughs!

“Rosie Rushton has a formidable reputation for teen fiction.”
THE BOOKSELLER

“…tackles teenage problems with her usual blend of humour and compassion…continues to explore unflinchingly and believably the issues which are at the heart of teenage malaise.”
BOOKS FOR KEEPS

What a Week to Get Real

Finally it's half-term week – and what a week!

HOLLY faces the biggest challenge of her life, CLEO learns that loving someone means accepting them the way they are, even when you wish you didn't have to. TANSY discovers that some secrets are best never told, and JADE, well, Jade needs her friends like never before.

Problems, crises, disasters – it certainly is a time to get real. But it is surprising what four friends can overcome when they are all helping each other!

What a Week to Risk It All

The last book in the popular WHAT A WEEK series…

It's supposed to be a fun week – exams are over and the holidays are around the corner. But the girls have reckoned without the pressures put on them by their boyfriends.

Holly is desperate to hang on to the delicious Ben. Jade worries that Flynn's attention is straying. Tansy is determined to sort out Andy's home life once and for all. And Cleo finds a boyfriend at last – but she's not sure she want him.

Full of dramas, dilemmas and decisions, it turns into a week to risk it all– but is every risk worth taking?

About Rosie Rushton: ‘A master of the genre.’
THE BOOKSELLER

The Secrets of Love

“Upon my word, I never saw a young woman so desperately in love in my life!”
SENSE AND SENSIBLITY – Jane Austen

What would happen if you transferred the traumas of teenage love from Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility to the twenty-first century? How would Ellie, Abby and Georgie fare without the restraints of nineteenth-century England?

Will Ellie’s ever-sensible attitude towards life prevent her from ever snogging the gorgeous, but somewhat reticent, Blake?

Is Abby’s devil-may-care outlook destined to land her in big trouble with Hunter, who majors in being up himself?

And what about the baby of the family, Georgie? She’s a tomboy, with more male friends than anyone, and so strong-willed she’ll never take no for an answer!

“… tackles teenager problems with her usual blend of humour and compassion … continues to explore unflinchingly and believably issues which are at the heart of teenage malaise.”
BOOKS FOR KEEPS(About Rosie Rushton)

Break Point

Emily is an ace tennis player, and the club coach is encouraging her to follow tennis as a career.

Her mother, who lived through the sixties and went to university when she really wanted to be in art college, is all for this.

Her grandmother, who had to leave school when the second world war started, is strongly encouraging her to finish her education.

How can Emily choose? And why does she have to wrestle with this decision when there are so many other diverting and fun things to do in her life?

Rosie Rushton explores not only Emily's life but those of her mother and her grandmother when they were the same age, and the issues the teenagers of each generation have had to face…

Friends, Enemies and Other Tiny Problems

I can't believe it's a year ago today that it all went horribly wrong…Friday 13th, it was.

Of course, Ella, who reads the horoscopes every day, said it was because Mars and Venus were opposing each other in Saturn or something like that.

Pippa, whose whole life is organised down to the tiniest detail, and who always says exactly what she thinks, said we were far too soft.

Christy didn't say much, but Christy lives in a dreamworld, composing music and choreographing imaginary people in imaginary ballets.

And Hannah. Well it was really all her fault. If she hadn't been such a whinger, none of it would ever have happened.

Writing that down in black and white makes me feel really mean. After all, it was me who got her into our crowd in the first place. I guess we should have seen the warning signs…

A story about exclusion as a form of bullying, from one of the UK's best-loved authors for teenagers.

"Rosie Rushton has a formidable reputation for teen fiction."
THE BOOKSELLER