A British Girl's Guide to Hurricanes and Heartbreak

By Laura Taylor Namey

Book Overview

"All hurricane and heart and deep family roots." --Jenna Evans Welch, New York Times bestselling author of Love & Gelato and Spells for Lost Things

In this highly anticipated companion to the New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club YA Pick A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, Flora Maxwell heads to Miami to find a path for her future...and finds her heart along the way.

Winchester, England, has always been home for Flora, but when her mother dies after a long illness, Flora feels untethered. Her family expects her to apply to university and take a larger role in their tea-shop business, but Flora isn't so sure. More than ever, she's the chaotic "hurricane" in her household, and she doesn't always know how to manage her stormy emotions.

So she decides to escape to Miami without telling anyone--especially her longtime friend Gordon Wallace.

But Flora's tropical change of scenery doesn't cast away her self-doubt. When it comes to university, she has no idea which passions she should follow. That's also true in romance. Flora's summer abroad lands her in the flashbulb world of teen influencer Baz Mar n, a Miami Cuban who shares her love for photography. But Flora's more conflicted than ever when she begins to see future architect Gordon in a new light.

In this powerfully emotional novel, Laura Taylor Namey navigates heartbreak that feels like a hurricane in a city that's famous for them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 166591534X
• ISBN13: 9781665915342
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12