Mia, sixteen and nervous, is interviewing for a summer job
in a stately home hotel in Kent. She's not sure how to cope
with distinguished guests (curtsey?) or cook anything but
spaghetti, but how hard can cleaning work be? A
distractingly good-looking bored young man is illicitly
sipping vintage port with another girl, and she gets fired.
He doesn't, but then, he lives at Radleigh Castle.
IRRESISTIBLE Jamie Foxx is rich already and Mia gets hired
as a waitress but keeps meeting the underachieving young
man, who has a fine opinion of himself. Dan, a new waiter,
is pretty nice and has the same travel bug as Mia; he takes
her for a picnic and tells her jokes. Jamie however seems
to like wrecking people's lives, and his self-confident
girlfriend Cleo doesn't spend much time with him. Cleo
gives Mia champagne after her work one evening and brings
her to chat with Jamie and a group of pals, most of whom
find Jamie irresistible and a natural leader. But they're
drunken pranksters. If only Mia wasn't so drawn to
Jamie....
Remember sixteen, when you were nervous, easily made to
feel a fool, scared of the world of romance and breakups,
learning fast about all the elements of life they don't
teach in school? Mia's story has it to a T. Her
insecurity in a world of slightly older people with money
and swagger, is resonant of 'Gatsby', or Kate
Holmquist's The Glass Room. "I want her to like me," Mia
says. She has a thoughtful mother and stepfather, dislikes
deceiving her best pal and has further exams looming. And
dreadfully, her one past boyfriend snapped a naked picture
of her and circulated it. Who said life had to be so
complicated?
Liz Bankes, who lives in London, gives us a young adult
book to remember, about glamour and embarrassment and
wanting to fit in with a crowd. Young people will learn
from it and identify with Mia and her good friends; adults
will recall their days as teens and wish they'd known then
what they know now. IRRESISTIBLE is the author's first
book and I look forward to reading many more.
When Mia gets a summer job at a prestigious country club,
it's hard work, but fun, especially as a romance develops
with fellow student Dan. However, from the beginning she is
drawn to the sexy, rich and bored Jamie--he's got everything
he could ever want, and enjoys nothing more than messing
with people's lives for his own entertainment. Mia knows
getting involved with Jamie is a bad idea, but there's
something so dangerously exciting about Jamie she just can't
resist.
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