Clearly, Noah’s mother, Lisa, makes many bad choices, not the least of which is her Beyoncé tribute act under the nom de theatre of Ruby Devine. When Noah's best friend Harry kisses him at a party, Noah is shocked (but not altogether disappointed).

Tak, zdaję sobie sprawę, że w realnym życiu często tak właśnie jest, ale to nie znaczy, że mamy to przyjmować jako coś oczywistego i pokazywać nastolatkom, że takie zachowanie jest normalne i akceptowalne. Maybe if he struck up a romantic relationship with someone – maybe Sophie, who is perfect and lovely – he’d be seen in a different light? The only thing that disappointed me was the apparent bi-erasure and the somewhat dated approach to sexuality: the option of Noah liking girls AND boys (which tbh he seemed to) was never mentioned.o. Noah Grimes, as he rather desperately attempts to find out who he is and where his attractions actually lie. To, co miało być przyjemne i zabawne, okazało się stekiem bzdurnych zwrotów akcji, z idiotycznym, wcale nieśmiesznym, za to reklamowanym jako "brytyjski" humorem. There were loads of mom-and-dad shenanigans, and a sub plot involving another girl, blackmail, and gobs of Noah consistently in-denial thoughts. Harry Potter battled forces of evil like bazillion of times already when he was 15, and Noah can't even form a coherent sentence without sounding like a mentally challenged caterpillar.

Gran escapes the dementia home, is found, along with Noah’s half brother, and his scam artist father turns back up after 6 years, his mom was dating Noah’s classmate who was actually the father of the baby of the girl who tried to seduce Noah, nothing doing, into believing he was the father since mom’s boyfriend wouldn’t take responsibility. If Green chose another tack, by taking it all seriously and delving into the characters' psyches in a deeply psychological and literary way, he could have produced a latter-day Werther, or a young gay Levin from Anna Karenina, or some such serious Bildungroman character, without changing any of the events or characters or relationships, but it would then have been a major tome of a book to slog through. It would be heartbreaking, except for the author’s cleverness, which somehow keeps the comedy one step ahead of the tragedy, using Noah’s inherent innocence and misguided wisdom as fuel. With help, and some evidence in video and a found earring left at the girl’s house by the guilty mom’s boyfriend, all is discovered and revealed in an hilarious Sherlock Holmes mystery novel tell all.

He is bullied and ignored, and shelters his soul within elaborate game-playing scenarios with Harry. The situations are convincing and spell-binding - I caught myself more than once wondering whether I may actually laugh at someone in this particular predicament (need one go further than the "boy problem" in the very first scene? The Bookseller ‘Slapstick but wonderfully funny’ Jewish Chronicle ‘A debut I very much loved’ Juno Dawson, author of The Gender Games and role model for Stonewall UK ‘Sweet, barmy, charming, unexpectedly romantic delight of a YA novel. Maar hoe lank dit gaan hou voor Noah op 'n nuwe reis deur die Hel gedwing word, sal ons maar moet sien. For a long time, one wonders what this ending will be, but it is satisfying nonetheless (did I mention the tall, gym-toned (and very sensitive) male nurse?