Quoting Nolan
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Austen O'James is the classic invisible yet inspiring teenage girl, who's destined for greatness but who's just too afraid to leave the comfort of her shell. A bookworm at heart, and a secret passion for music, living with her mother after her parents divorce, alone with no siblings to squabble with, she wishes nothing but to leave her home town and escape into the stupendous world that everyone writes about in stories.
However, currently she's fighting the battles of a zero existent social life that deems her too busy.
But what happens when one day a small note is left for her in the library? And then another and another. Finally when everything starts looking up, Austen starts looking down, memorising the messy loopy handwriting of the boy she's never met, yet knew too much. How long until she starts quoting Nolan? #BOOK1
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