Beautiful Girl: A Novel by Fleur Philips

Seventeen-year-old Melanie Kennicut is gorgeous. Her complete lifestyles revolves round this attractiveness simply because her overly controlling mom has been dragging her to casting calls and auditions due to the fact that she used to be 4 years outdated. in keeping with Joanne Kennicut, Melanie was once born to stick to in her footsteps. yet Melanie by no means sought after this existence. while a freak vehicle twist of fate leaves her with facial lacerations that would require cosmetic surgery, she can not help yet ponder whether this is often the reply to her prayers. For the 1st time in her existence, she has an opportunity to dwell like an ordinary teenagerat least for a bit whileaway from the picture shoots and picture units that experience ruled her whole lifestyles. yet after Melanie permits her ally to return to the home to work out her, Joanne comes to a decision to conceal her daughter in Montana for the rest of the summer season. There, Melanie will not be visible via an individual they comprehend, and her face will heal in time for the scheduled surgical procedure in overdue August. Joanne’s plan backfires, in spite of the fact that, whilst Melanie meets Sam, a local American boy employed through the home's proprietor to are inclined to the valuables. Sam is not anything just like the Hollywood boys Melanie knowshe¹s bad, his father's a inebriated who possesses a strange present inherited from a Kootenai Shaman, and his in simple terms brother disappeared into the mountains after the loss of life in their mom 8 years ahead of. What transpires over a trifling 36 hours after Sam and Melanie meet adjustments either one of their lives in methods they by no means inspiration possible.

USA most sensible booklet Awards: Fiction: younger grownup, Finalist