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Jodi McAlister Jodi McAlister i(9030080 works by)
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Dr Jodi McAlister is a Lecturer in Writing and Literature at Deakin University in Melbourne. Her research focuses on love, romance, and the popular fiction industry. She is also the author of young adult novels Valentine (2017) and Ironheart (2018), published by Penguin Teen Australia. 

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y separately published work icon Libby Lawrence Is Good at Pretending Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2022 24386159 2022 single work novel romance young adult

'Nineteen-year-old Libby Lawrence is good at pretending. Problem is, she's not entirely sure how to stop. Which is good for her role in the campus production of Much Ado About Nothing ... but poses problems in her personal life. Especially when the list of things she can't admit to, even to her best friend Ella, starts to build.

'Losing her virginity to the too-charming director of her uni theatre group (just before he ran off with the group's money) is only the start. There's also an uncomfortable encounter with her broody on-stage love interest Roarke, and her crackling offstage chemistry with nerdy-but-sweet new director Will.

'And while Libby is thrilled to finally be on the inside of the uni theatre group she reveres, there's a downside to being in on all the group chats, drama and backstage gossip. She must discover who she wants to be, who she wants to be with ... and how to stop pretending.

'Jodi McAlister's sparkling campus novel is a rom-com about friendship, authenticity, and all the ways we perform ourselves ... and the preciousness of those moments when all artifice falls away. Dramatic and wise, it combines the arch wit and sharp banter of Ten Things I Hate About You and Clueless with a knowing heart.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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