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At Wellington School, London, Harriet Williams has spent years loving Felix Clarke from a safe distance.
He's never left.
He's always been there, laughing in corridors, ruling classrooms, breaking hearts without even noticing. While Harriet grows up quietly in his shadow, Felix remains the school's golden boy: charming, admired, and completely out of reach.
Shy, fifteen, and already carrying the weight of her parents' painful divorce, Harriet's life is full of walls she didn't choose to build. Her mother's sudden new relationship, with their neighbour, no less, only adds to her sense of being unseen and unheard. Loving Felix becomes her one secret comfort... and her greatest risk.
Because Felix Clarke isn't just any crush.
He's Brittney Clarke's brother, her bully's untouchable sibling.
And he's rumoured to be dating Olivia Sky, the school's dazzling cheerleader.
Harriet watches from the sidelines as whispers spread, hearts flutter, and Felix's life appears perfectly scripted, Cambridge next year, Medical Science, a future already decided. What no one sees are the cracks beneath his confidence. Felix has secrets of his own. Expectations that suffocate. Choices he hasn't made for himself.
When circumstances force Felix and Harriet into closer proximity, long-held glances turn dangerous, rumours sharpen, and Brittney remains oblivious to the truth simmering right under her nose.
But love isn't simple when it grows between fear and longing.
And falling for the boy you were never supposed to love means crossing boundaries that could cost everything.
Quite Taken, Actually is a gripping YA romance about quiet crushes, school hierarchies, unspoken feelings, and the terrifying hope that maybe, just maybe, someone who once seemed impossible might finally see you.