Beautiful Friendship

Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and laugh and bicker in this house. Today she is getting married in this house, with all her family in attendance. The wedding celebrations have brought fractured family together for the first time in years: there's Phoebe and her husband Michael, children in tow. The young and sensitive Rosie, with her new partner. Irene, Mary's ex-mother-in-law. Even Emma, Mary's eldest, is back for the wedding - despite being at odds with everyone else.

I was brave. She was reckless. We were trouble. Best friends Caddy and Rosie are inseparable. Their differences have brought them closer, but as she turns 16 Caddy begins to wish she could be a bit more like Rosie - confident, funny and interesting. Then Suzanne comes into their lives - beautiful, damaged, exciting and mysterious - and things get a whole lot more complicated. As Suzanne's past is revealed and her present begins to unravel, Caddy begins to see how much fun a little trouble can be.

Kevin loses everything when he gets too bullish day trading. He ends up living on the streets with nothing to eat. A strange woman approaches Kevin and offers him a job. Too bad Kevin doesn’t know this woman wants to make him a beautiful girl for hire.

Each one of us is different in our own unique way, and it's those differences that make us beautiful. Come along on a whimsical journey as young Chloe and her friends hit the road to spread the news that we're all beautiful and perfect just the way we are.

Nick thought he had the life he always wanted until one night ruined it all. Ashamed and distraught, he hides away in the small town of Fairview. Still, he can't get the image of holding his best friend, Kelly, out of his mind. They had been friends for years, there is no way that she could have any feelings for him, or does she? Kelly only wants to have her best friend and partner back. They might have made a mistake by sleeping together but that shouldn't destroy what they have. She might secretly be in love with him but that doesn't mean she can't get past that. Or at least that's what ...

Heather Monty loved living in her small town of Fairview, but she feels there's something missing. Needing some excitement she gets more than she bargains for when she meets Dr. Josh Grady. The attraction is instantaneous but she knows a player when she sees one and she isn't looking for a one-night stand. Or is she? Josh Grady came to Fairview as a favor to a friend, and because he wanted a change. One look at Heather has him thinking she just might be the change that he needs. Too bad, she doesn't want to have anything to do with him. But Josh has never back down from anything in his life...

Fierce Fragile Hearts is the stunning companion novel to Sara Barnard's YA bestseller Beautiful Broken Things. It is about leaving the past behind, the friends who form your future and learning to find love in all its forms. Two years after a downward spiral took her as low as you can possibly go, Suzanne is starting again. Again. She's back in Brighton, the only place she felt she belonged, back with her best friends Caddy and Rosie. But they're about to leave for university.

Have you ever known someone briefly...then they were taken away suddenly? It's not like a family member. It's different. But still leaves you hurting.