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Lila Mackay is Very Misunderstood: New for 2025 the hilarious diary-style teen romantic comedy – the first YA novel from Gill Sims Sunday Times best-selling author of The Why Mummy series - cover

Lila Mackay is Very Misunderstood: New for 2025 the hilarious diary-style teen romantic comedy – the first YA novel from Gill Sims Sunday Times best-selling author of The Why Mummy series

Gill Sims

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Publisher: HarperCollins UK

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Summary

The No.1 bestselling author of The Why Mummy series, Gill Sims, is back with her very first book for young YA readers! 
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 McKay, 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 … 
Perfect for fans of Geek Girl and readers who are that next age up from Lottie Brooks.
Publishing date: 2025-08-14; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —