The Build-Up Season

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The Build-Up Season by Megan Jacobson is a captivating young adult novel exploring complex family dynamics and personal growth. The story follows a young woman navigating the challenges of adolescence, dealing with relationships, and overcoming personal struggles. As she learns important truths about love and resilience, she seeks her path while facing life's ups and downs with courage and honesty.
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The Build-Up Season

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Seventeen-year-old Iliad Piper - Ily for short - is named after war and angry at the world. Growing up with a violent father and abused mother, she doesn't know how to do relationships, family or friends.

Her love-hate friendship with Max turns into a prank war, and she nearly destroys her first true friendship with misfit Mia. She takes off her armour for nobody, until she meets Jared, a local actor and someone who's as complicated as she is.

The Build-Up Season by Megan Jacobson is a compelling exploration of teenage life marked by conflict, growth, and unexpected connections.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143573388

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 July 2017

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 197g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Megan Jacobson grew up in Darwin and the far north coast of New South Wales, but now lives in Sydney, where she works in TV news production at the ABC. She has a degree in journalism and has worked as a question writer for TV game shows, and as an in-house script storyliner and script editor for several Australian television dramas. Her short stories have been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, aired on ABC radio, appeared in the UTS writers' anthology I can see my house from here and in the Review of Australian Fiction. Her first novel Yellow was shortlisted in the Older Readers category of the 2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards.

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