Pieces of You

Author(s): Eileen Merriman

NZ Young Adult Fiction

Wise, tough, heart-breaking, funny, this compulsive love story is about facing your demons. Fifteen-year-old Rebecca McQuilten moves with her parents to a new city. Lonely but trying to fit in, she goes to a party, but that's when things really fall apart. I couldn't tell anyone what had happened. Especially since I was the new girl in town. Who would want to believe me? Things look up when she meets gregarious sixteen-year-old Cory Marshall. 'You're funny, Becs,' Cory said. 'You have no idea,' I said, and clearly he didn't, but I was smiling anyway. And after that, he was all I could think about. Cory helps Rebecca believe in herself and piece her life back together; but that's before he shatters it all over again . . .

PUBLICATION JUNE 2017


Product Information

Finalist in Best First Book Award, NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2018

Eileen Merriman works full-time as a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital. Her writing has appeared in a number of national and international journals and anthologies, including Smokelong Quarterly, The Island Review, Literary Orphans, the 2015 Bath Short Story Anthology, the Sunday Star-Times, F(r)iction, Takahe, Headland and Flash Frontier. Her awards include second in the 2015 Bath Flash Fiction Award, commended in the 2015 Bath Short Story Competition, third in the 2014 & 2015 Sunday Star-Times Short Story competitions, and first place in the 2015 Graeme Lay Short Story competition.

General Fields

  • : 9780143770473
  • : Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
  • : Penguin Books (NZ)
  • : 0.308
  • : March 2017
  • : 197mm X 129mm X 31mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Eileen Merriman
  • : Paperback
  • : 617
  • : en
  • : 336