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書籍專區 青少年兒童 青少年小說 Little Bang

Little Bang

作者:McCaughrain, Kelly

出版社:Walker Books Limited

出版日期:2024.01.24

ISBN:9781406375725

書號:20306403

裝訂:平裝

定價:$405

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內容簡介
𝙇𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙜 by Kelly McCaughrain 
【意外懷孕的責任,你要對誰的生命負責?】
 
靦腆的理工女孩梅兒和喜歡寫歌的男孩席德在第一次約會後就懷孕了,任何沒落實避孕的 16 歲青少男女都會遇到的大麻煩,但現在是 2018 年的北愛爾蘭,墮胎仍然是非法的。梅兒信仰忠貞的父母堅持必須留下這個孩子,而席德推崇女性主義的媽媽則力促終止懷孕。
梅兒和席德決心一起討論、處理這件事,但他們很快就發現懷孕對男女來說是截然不同的狀況。當他們的戀愛關係在巨大的壓力下開始破裂,身懷「Little Bang」隨著時間一點一滴不斷長大的小生命,梅兒發現自己在這兩難無解的人生課題前,感到無比孤獨...
 
A bittersweet Northern Irish romance that takes a new look at teen pregnancy, the magic and mess of first relationships, and a young woman's right to choose her own future.
Beneath the New Year's Eve fireworks, shy science-nerd Mel and slacker songwriter Sid get pregnant on their first date. Any sixteen-year-olds would expect trouble – but this is Northern Ireland 2018, where abortion is still illegal. Mel's religious parents insist she must keep the baby, whilst Sid's feminist mum pushes for a termination.
Mel and Sid are determined to do this together, but they soon discover that pregnancy is totally different for boys and girls. When their relationship starts to fall apart under all the pressure, Mel finds herself feeling alone with the impossible dilemma of the Little Bang growing inside her.
作者介紹
Kelly McCaughrain’s first YA novel, Flying Tips for Flightless Birds won the CBI Book of the Year and NI Book Award and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal. She was the QUB Children’s Writing Fellow 2019-21. When not writing, she enjoys the adrenaline rush of driving an extremely old and unreliable VW campervan around countries where she can’t say ‘fan belt’ in the local language, but her favourite pastime is running a Fighting Words creative writing club for teen writers who constantly inspire her and put her teenage self to shame with their brilliance.