Breathless by Jennifer Niven

When the floor disappears from under your feet, how do you find your way? Everything is changing for Claude: she’s about to graduate high school, her parents are splitting up and, because her dad ‘needs some space’, Claude is turfed out of the town she grew up in. Even worse, leaving Mary Grove means she has to leave her best friend Saz behind. 

So, when Claude meets rough around the edges Jeremiah, her world is turned upside down all over again. 

She also really, really wants to have sex, but it has to be with the right person. 

For me, this book is about being okay, in the moment, even when things are uncertain. It’s about staying true to yourself and having faith that the people who mean the most will stay true to you, too. 

And one final thing that’s not to be left out: this book does a good job normalising feelings around losing virginity for different types of sexuality. 

“All I can think is how one minute the floor was there and now it’s not. How you could go through an entire day, every day, not thinking about the floor or the ground. because you just assume it will always be there. Until it isn’t.”

This book is for #exploringsexuality #change #comingofage #friendship #parentsbreakingup