Cut Him Out in Little Stars

Lucy Strange
13+
Historical  Young Adult  Romance 
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Extract

I have been waiting to fall in love for some time. It finally happens on a blazing hot afternoon in the early summer of 1940.

It is very warm and dark inside the village pub. All the windows and doors have been flung open, and outside, on the village green, a group of RAF boys are sprawled beneath the horse chestnut I used to climb when I was small. The young men are drinking, laughing – their voices jarringly young amidst the sleepiness of Woodhurst: the soft chime of the clock tower; the lazy crooning of wood pigeons.

The landlord of The Pig finishes drying a tankard. He sighs and wipes the sweat from his forehead with a shirt sleeve, then he stoops down the cellar steps to find the bottle of brandy Father has sent me to collect.

About the book

A stunning historical YA romance from bestselling author Lucy Strange, for fans of Laura Wood or Alwyn Hamilton.

Heartbroken after the death of her fighter pilot fiancé, Juliet is sent to stay with her sister at Samphire House. But when she discovers the body of a local girl washed up on the beach, past mysteries come flooding back.

Under the darkening skies of wartime England, Juliet is thrown together with a handsome stranger.

Can she find the courage to confront her deepest fears, put right a terrible injustice, and - even as the world burns around her - risk falling in love once more?

  • Gorgeously romantic clean teen fiction from bestselling author Lucy Strange, author of Sisters of the Lost Marsh, The Ghost of Gosswater and Waterstones Prize-shortlisted Our Castle by the Sea

  • An unforgettable, sweeping WW2 romance with a thrilling murder mystery thread

  • Showcases Lucy's trademark themes, now for an older teenage readership: atmosphere, female identity and the gothic

'An utterly luminous book, which stayed with me long after the final pages' NATASHA FARRANT

'An achingly beautiful coming of age story, with a stunning romance I feared might break my heart at any page' ALWYN HAMILTON

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