My Rocky Romance Diary

A stonkingly funny teenage diary featuring the one-and-only mishap-magnet that is Kelly Ann!

Liz Rettig is over twenty-one and lives in Glasgow with her husband and two children. She works as a teacher, and used to be like Kelly Ann - but she's all right now.

Kelly Ann is all loved-up with her gorgeous soulmate, Chris, so there's no way she's going to let her attraction for the dark and dangerous new boy at school go any further. OK, so he rides a cool Harley Davidson motorbike, plays in a cool band and has dedicated a song to her. But she's not going to let that rock her relationship with Chris, is she? 
Besides, Kelly Ann has other things to worry about. Like being dragged through the mud by a rogue Great Dane, locked out of the house by an eight year old she's supposed to be babysitting and that YouTube video that shows her grappling with a half-naked guy in Pizza Express - 200,000 hits and counting in just twelve hours...

My Dating Disasters Diary

A hilarious and embarrassing teenage diary featuring the revelations of Kelly Ann, heroine of the bestselling My Desperate Love Diary

A funny, touching and heartfelt novel dealing with the angst of growing up and being forced into roles you do not want . . . I appreciated Liz Rettig's anti-heroine Kelly Ann, who adds a touch of acid to the sugar and her take on the world will be much appreciated by girls who don't want to conform to the standard pattern

In the mood to rock with laughter, to hoot with glee and shake your head? Buy a copy of My Dating Disasters Diary by Liz Rettig, narrated in first person by the tremendously likeable and flippant tomboy, Kelly Ann

At least four girls in the appropriate age-group spotted me reading this book and asked if they could borrow it, so I don't think it would be unpopular

This series is hilarious! It's funny, clever and is guaranteed to brighten even the worst of days

Liz Rettig is over twenty-one and lives in Glasgow with her husband and two children. She works as a teacher and MY DESPERATE LOVE DIARY was her first novel. She used to be just like Kelly Ann, but she's all right now.

Kelly Ann is a total tomboy. She loves football and computer games and has no idea why anyone would want to bother with soppy romantic stuff and stupid crushes on boys. Her best mate is Chris, the boy next door, and he's not into that stuff either, is he? 
 
Follow Kelly Ann's ventures into the crazy world of love through her stonkingly funny diaries.

My Desperate Love Diary

An hilarious and excruciating diary of a teenage girl who wants bigger boobs, blonder hair - and the biggest idiot in school to fall in love with her.

Heartfelt but at the same time fantastically funny, this is a holiday must-read

G 
Oh G, Oh G, Oh G, 
Where art thou, Oh G? 
Will you ever be, 
With Me? 
G?

Liz Rettig is over twenty-one and lives in Glasgow with her husband and two children. She works as a teacher and MY DESPERATE LOVE DIARY is her first novel. She used to be just like Kelly Ann, but she's all right now.

Kelly Ann is fifteen and desperately in love with G - the biggest idiot in school. Her best friends Liz and Stephanie can see how awful G is - and also that Kelly Ann's quietly gorgeous friend Chris is madly in love with her. But Kelly Ann stumbles along blindly, unable to see what's right in front of her eyes. Navigating her way through teenage embarrassments, sick-filled parties, awful love poetry and green condoms, Kelly Ann is a hilariously endearing character and one every female reader, whatever age, will be able to relate to.

My Now or Never Diary

More embarrassingly funny revelations from the new queen of teen-lit!

Sparkling sequel to last summer's Desperate Love Diary . . . A smart, funny look at love and sex that's very easy to identify with

Kelly Ann has only just come to her senses and realised that G, the boy she's fancied all year, is a total nerd and Chris, the boy next door who's been in love with her all year, is actually the man for her. But does that mean she'll live happily ever after with Chris, discovering the joys of sex and smugly advising her friends in the ways of true love? Of course not. With the help of her faithful friends Liz and Steph, Kelly Ann manages to muck it all up and finds that the path of true love never runs smoothly! Can her relationship with Chris survive being found by his parents semiclothed in their living room on the day of his surprise birthday party? Or her wild girls' holiday to the domain of the holiday rep, Faliraki? Can Kelly Ann get through all these crises and manage to singlehandedly look after her sister's baby and the fake baby school have given her as a project too? A hilarious riot of teenage fumblings, terrible teachers and skincare made from porridge.

My Scorching Summer Diary

The hilarious and accident-prone Kelly Ann returns, in a summer diary full of romance, chaos and laughs.

Liz Rettig's writing flows so easily and is full of Scottish wit and wisdom . . . Teenage girls should have no problem relating to Kelly Ann's madcap antics and friendship/boyfriend troubles, and might even pick up some tips from her

Proves that although life can take away dreams in one breath, it can grant a different path to dreams in another. I laughed a lot

A breezy story filled with summer fun. I loved it!

There were really no faults with this . . . Still, if you are looking for a flighty, summer read full of Kelly Ann's disastrous (but incredibly funny) adventures, pick this up!

Seventeen-year-old Kelly Ann leaves behind her boyfriend, family and friends in Glasgow to live and work in a London hotel for the summer. But losing her luggage and fending off tube gropers on her first day isn't a good start. Almost being arrested for stealing men's underwear on her second isn't any better. However she does manages to make friends, even though, to impress her new pals, she pretends to be older and more sophisticated than she is, with a doctor boyfriend. London life is fun, even though she has to work in a steaming hot kitchen all day. But her made-up life starts to get very complicated, and she has rely on old friends to save the day.

Liz Rettig

The writing is brilliant and very readable . . . It's like Sophie Kinsella for younger audiences

Liz Rettig has magaged once again to capture the essence of a girl's teenage years, and all the confusing problems that inevitably accompany it

A brilliantly funny tale of romantic confusion! 
 
Cat is fat and boring - or so she thinks. Her mum is a stick insect and so is her twin sister Tessa - a bit of a spoilt brat who can get any boy she wants. There's a new arrival in their town from the USA - Josh, the son of their dad's boss. He's gorgeous so Tessa is keen and Cat knows she doesn't have a chance... But Josh seems strangely uninterested in Tess. Cat thinks there must be more to the situation... She and Josh become friends and eventually she thinks she's got to the bottom of the mystery...maybe Josh just isn't into girls at all...? Now she has a new best gay friend, cat's life is much happier, and she and Josh get on wonderfully. If only things could stay that simple...

Liz Rettig

Praise for Jumping to Confusions

The writing is brilliant and very readable . . . It's like Sophie Kinsella for younger audiences

Liz Rettig has magaged once again to capture the essence of a girl's teenage years, and all the confusing problems that inevitably accompany it

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