Born the daughter of a self-centred and manipulative con artist mother, Nora spent the first 12 years of her life helping her mother run her dangerous cons, first as a prop, then as an active participant, learning everything there is about lies, deceit and becoming a whole different person. With only a small police force in town, the nearest SWAT team hours away and the gunmen getting more and more antsy, things look grim for the hostages until Nora takes the lead.ĭespite only being 17, Nora has a complicated and terrible past. When their plan goes awry, the two robbers take the staff and customers hostage, locking them in and barricading the doors. However, things get decidedly worse when two armed men storm the bank, shooting wildly and demanding the manager. When young teen Nora O’Malley started her day, she thought that the worst thing she would have to deal with would be an awkward chance meeting with her ex-boyfriend at the local bank with her new girlfriend in tow. Publisher: Hodder Children’s Books (Trade Paperback – 9 February 2021)įrom bestselling young adult author Tess Sharpe comes an outstanding and deeply impressive new novel, The Girls I’ve Been, an extremely clever and emotionally rich young adult thriller that is easily one of my favourite books of 2021 so far.
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