The Sun is also a Star

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The internationally bestselling love story from Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything - coming as a major film starring Yara Shahidi in 2019.

The fantastic new YA love story from master storyteller and author of Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon

Lyrical and sweeping, full of hope, heartbreak, fate. . . and the universal beating of the human heart

Profound . . . both deeply moving and satisfying

Nicola Yoon is the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Sun Is Also a Star and Everything, Everything, both of which have been turned into major motion pictures. She grew up in Jamaica and Brooklyn and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, novelist David Yoon, and their daughter. She's also a hopeless romantic who firmly believes that you can fall in love in an instant and that it can last forever. 
 
Follow Nicola Yoon on Instagram and Tumblr and @NicolaYoon on Twitter.

The internationally bestselling love story from Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything. Now a major film starring Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton! 
 
Natasha: 
I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. 
 
Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. 
 
Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story. 
 
Daniel: 
I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. 
 
Never the poet. Or the dreamer. 
 
But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us. 
 
The Universe: 
Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?

Everything, Everything

Featuring stunning cover artwork from the film of Nicola Yoon's first novel, the story about the girl who lived in a bubble - and the boy next door.

'Powerful, lovely, heart-wrenching, and so absorbing I devoured it in one sitting' – Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places 
 
If you loved Hazel and Augustus, Violet and Finch, and Mia and Adam, get ready to fall again for Maddy and Olly – the girl who lives in a bubble, and the boy next door . . . Soon to be a major motion picture! 
 
This is the story of the thrill and heartbreak that ensues when we break out of our shell to do crazy, sometimes death-defying things for love. 
 
Madeline Whittier is allergic to the outside world. So allergic, in fact, that she has never left the house in all of her seventeen years. But when Olly moves in next door, and wants to talk to Maddy, tiny holes start to appear in the protective bubble her mother has built around her. Olly writes his IM address on a piece of paper, shows it at her window, and suddenly, a door opens. Maddy is certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It's almost certainly going to be a disaster.

Everything, Everything is everything, everything – powerful, lovely, heart-wrenching, and so absorbing I devoured it in one sitting. It’s a wonder. The rare novel that lifts and shatters and fills you all at once

Jennifer Niven, author of ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES

This extraordinary first novel about love so strong it might kill us is too good to feel like a debut. Tender, creative, beautifully written, and with a great twist, Everything, Everything is one of the best books I’ve read this year

With offbeat, pragmatic and sweetly romantic characters and an unconventional narrative style . . . “Everything, Everything” tells us something we will always need to hear, no matter our age: that it’s not the risks of love or heartbreak that might end us. It’s the fear of the pain we might experience along the way that keeps us trapped in our cocoons

Fresh, moving debut . . . far more complex than the sweet tale of first love it initially seems to be

This heartwarming story transcends the ordinary by exploring the hopes, dreams, and inherent risks of love in all of its forms

An absolute peach of a love story. Maddy’s unique history of isolation and solitude makes every incremental step towards intimacy crackle with impossible hope. Their chemistry rebounds off the page. And it’s beautifully written, too, with charm, wit and style as well as heart

Susie Day, author of MY INVISIBLE BOYFRIEND

An entirely unique and beautiful reading experience. Gorgeous writing meshes with original artwork to tell a love story like no other. You’ve never read a book like this

Everything, Everything has everything . . . Romance, heart, and intelligence. Nicola Yoon’s book and voice stayed with me long after I finished reading

Danielle Paige, author of DOROTHY MUST DIE

Everything, Everything is now a major motion picture starring Amanda Stenberg from The Hunger Games and Love Simon's Nick Robinson. 
 
A #1 New York Times Bestseller! 
 
‘Absolutely loved the book’ – Zoella 
 
Maddy is allergic to the world; stepping outside the sterile sanctuary of her home could kill her. But then Olly moves in next door. And just like that, Maddy realizes there's more to life than just being alive. You only get one chance at first love. And Maddy is ready to risk everything, everything to see where it leads. 
 
'Powerful, lovely, heart-wrenching, and so absorbing I devoured it in one sitting' – Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places 
 
And don't miss Nicola Yoon's #1 New York Times bestseller The Sun Is Also a Star, in which two teens are brought together just when the universe is sending them in opposite directions.

Nicola Yoon

An endearing, affecting portrayal of the journey of love. Everything Yoon touches turns to gold... this cinematic supernatural romance will be no exception

A remarkable, irresistible love story that will linger long after the reader turns the final page

A story of love's unpredictability and the importance of perspective that unfolds with ease and heart

Evie is disillusioned about love ever since her dad left her mum for another woman - she's even throwing out her beloved romance novel collection. 
 
When she's given a copy of a book called Instructions for Dancing, and follows a note inside to a dilapidated dance studio, she discovers she has a strange and unwelcome gift. When a couple kisses in front of her, she can see their whole relationship play out - from the moment they first catch each other's eye to the last bitter moments of their break-up. 
 
For Evie, it confirms everything she thinks she knows about love - that it doesn't last. 
 
But at the dance studio she meets X - tall, dreadlocked, fascinating - and they start to learn to dance, together. Can X help break the spell that Evie is under? Can he change Evie's mind about love? 
 
Praise for Nicola Yoon: 
 
'Gorgeous and lyrical' New York Times 
 
'Powerful, lovely, heart-wrenching' Jennifer Niven 
 
'This extraordinary first novel about love so strong it might kill us is too good to feel like a debut' Jodi Picoult

Nicola Yoon

Praise for Instructions for Dancing

An endearing, affecting portrayal of the journey of love. Everything Yoon touches turns to gold... this cinematic supernatural romance will be no exception

A remarkable, irresistible love story that will linger long after the reader turns the final page

A story of love's unpredictability and the importance of perspective that unfolds with ease and heart

An endearing, affecting portrayal of the journey of love. Everything Yoon touches turns to gold... this cinematic supernatural romance will be no exception

A remarkable, irresistible love story that will linger long after the reader turns the final page

A story of love's unpredictability and the importance of perspective that unfolds with ease and heart

An endearing, affecting portrayal of the journey of love. Everything Yoon touches turns to gold... this cinematic supernatural romance will be no exception

A remarkable, irresistible love story that will linger long after the reader turns the final page

A story of love's unpredictability and the importance of perspective that unfolds with ease and heart

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