Ricky Bird is 12, but nearly 13. Her parents are separated and thanks to her mums new boyfriend they’re moving across London to Camden live closer to him. It’s the summer before going back to school and in a bid for something to do, Ricky applies to a community writing course. Finally! A chance for Ricky to put her storytelling skills to good use! Although if you ask her 6 year old brother Ollie, she’s pretty great at telling stories already! If you ask adults however, they just tell her to stop making up stories and lying.

Wow! I read someone suggest this has a flavour of Eleanor Oliphant Is Perfectly Fine and they were right! Our protagonist Ricky is great at creating all kinds of stories to make a preferred sense of the world around her and man I wish I had the imagination she does for story telling! It’s so creative and inspiring! This story does have some heavy themes so look into them if need be but I don’t want to share too much here just in case! 🙊