Big Dreams
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A story of love, dreams and betrayal, great 60s bands, fabulous fashion and the sexual revolution. Lily Davis is shy and anxious. Her best friend, Jo Price, is brimming with confidence and fearless. Tom Bennett is the boy that Jo is secretly mad about but he’s fallen hopelessly in love with Lily.The friends dream of moving to Paris as soon as they finish school and live an amazing life. Only one year before they can leave and be as far away from their parents and dreary England as they can easily get.Lily dearly loves Jo and avoids Tom, wanting nothing to harm their friendship or their plans. One Saturday after seeing The Kinks at the pub, Jo is with Tom’s brother and Lily finds herself alone with Tom. That night, everything changes forever!"Wonderful book! An incredible story of life--being young and fancy free during the 1960's; laughter, friendship, pent up feelings, love, romance, betrayal and sadness. I wasn't prepared for the flood of deep emotions. Memorable characters with personal stories worth exploring. Couldn't put it down." Julie Postance, Author of Breaking the Sound Barriers"Teenager Lily Davis is an anomaly in Britain’s era of free love and drugs: she refuses to have sex until she can begin birth control. She has plans with her best friend, Jo, to study science and see the world once they pass their exams. But after she meets Tom, Lily’s resolve falters; she’s swayed by his declarations of love and her own fierce longing for intimacy. When she unsurprisingly becomes pregnant, she takes her future and her self—both uncertain, both damaged—into her own hands and tries to make everything right.Pamela Ann Sun’s greatest success in BIG DREAMS is her construction of the emotionally complex Lily, whose life at home strongly influences her actions. Ever since Lily can remember, her parents have treated her with disinterest, and her father even sometimes hit her. Lily s
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