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Please help me find this 1990s teen/young adult book!

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RedLemon · 28/10/2021 23:05

I can’t for the life of me remember the name!

I read it when I was maybe 14/15/16 I think so circa 1998. I remember very little of it (aside that I loved it) but it was about a girl who ends up getting pregnant and I think it ends with her and her baby living in a cottage that used to be owned by her grandmother. Maybe working as an artist? In my mind she has long wavy auburn hair but I don’t know if that was just in my imagination.

I’ve often thought of harnessing the power of the nest of vipers on this one so hopefully someone can help me find its name based on this pathetically inadequate amount of information 🙏🏻

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SunlessSea · 28/10/2021 23:39

Deffo sounds like Easy Connections. I lost my copy long ago and for years any copies were ridiculously expensive because it was out of print. I was so happy when I found the kindle version a couple of months ago. It hasn’t stood the test of time unfortunately. Almost 50 year old me doesn’t find it quite as romantic teenage me did!

DrHildegardeLanstrom · 28/10/2021 23:38

This is the book I am thinking of
www.goodreads.com/book/show/6377459-this-is-me-speaking

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RedLemon · 28/10/2021 23:30

God maybe there was a party involved. I’m now wondering if it was set in the 70s and then there was a follow up story in the 90s about her daughter…. But now that makes me circle back to Dear Nobody because the protagonists mum has her “out of wedlock” too doesn’t she?

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RedLemon · 28/10/2021 23:28

Blue Moon rings a bell too but I don’t think it’s the one I’m thinking of.

Dear Nobody is in the lead- she could have been musical rather than artistic- I just have a vague memory of arty/talenty.

You’re all so amazing. I thought no one would be up for this game at this hour if the night!

I may have invented the ending- I had to get help on here once after totally misremembering the end of Goodnight Mister TomBlush

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DrHildegardeLanstrom · 28/10/2021 23:27

This is ringing bells for me too. Did it have an encounter at a party, and then she stayed with a kind man?

sunshineandshowers21 · 28/10/2021 23:27

megan by mary hooper?

HumphreyCobblers · 28/10/2021 23:24

The L shaped Room?

piglet81 · 28/10/2021 23:23

I loved Dear Nobody too. The girl in that was musical rather than artistic IIRC.

sunshineandshowers21 · 28/10/2021 23:22

blue moon or baby blue by julia green?

Hiyawotcha · 28/10/2021 23:21

Pennington’s heir by K M Peyton?

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RedLemon · 28/10/2021 23:21

Oooh Dear Nobody sounds like a runner. It’s definitely flicking some memory switches somewhere. I might see if I can get a copy and check it out. Thank you!!

I don’t think it was Easy Connections- doesn’t ring any bells. I am loving the billowing shirt and chest action going on on that cover though😂 Would have been too much for my teenage heart altogether.

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WaltzingBetty · 28/10/2021 23:19

My sweet Audrina, Virginia roberts?

sleepykits · 28/10/2021 23:19

Hardacres

Justawaterformeplease · 28/10/2021 23:17

Easy Connections?

www.amazon.com/Easy-Connections-Liz-Berry/dp/0954886402/ref=nodl_?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

SleepingStandingUp · 28/10/2021 23:16

The only teen pregnancy book I read around then was Dear Nobody by Berlie Doherty

Becca19962014 · 28/10/2021 23:15

I thought of “dear nobody” I’ve not read it in years so not 100% on the ending.

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RedLemon · 28/10/2021 23:15

No but I LOVED that one! Still have it on my bookshelf!

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piglet81 · 28/10/2021 23:12

A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian?