LOVESICK FALLS

Sometimes growing up means growing apart in this queer take on As You Like It featuring first loves and friend break-ups, perfect for fans of THE GRAVITY OF US and WE ARE OKAY, from award-winning author Julia Drake.

Celia Gilbert is the perfect friend loyal, trustworthy, and committed to mending her best friends' broken hearts. She's the reason why the trio is spending the summer in Lovesick Falls, the idyllic little town where Touchstone's sort-of-uncle's cabin was waiting to be house-sat by three unsupervised (but totally responsible) teenagers. After all, Celia, Ros, and Touchstone have been best friends since childhood. Sure, Celia is in love with Ros, and Touchstone was once been in love with Celia but that's the beauty of a place like Lovesick Falls. If you fell in love, you could fall out. Unless you can change the other person's mind. Which is totally not what any of them are trying to do especially Celia. She's just trying to have the best summer ever, as the best friend ever. Which is proof that she'd also make the best girlfriend ever. But as they each make new friends, meet unexpected celebrity crushes, and connect with cute co-workers, Celia's dreamy summer plans of being nestled in a cabin with her two best friends begin to feel like a nightmare. They started the summer closer than ever. Will living together tear them apart? Julia Drake's debut novel THE LAST TRUE POETS OF THE SEA was published in 2019 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers and received the 2020 New England Book Award, six starred reviews, and was named a 2019 Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist, among other publications. Her short fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Esopus, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, and occasionally moonlights as a professor of creative and academic writing. She lives and works in Philadelphia with her partner and their rescue rabbit, Ned.