![]() ![]() ![]() While my characters are definitely struggling with that, they’re not exactly beaten down or submissive. To my mind, what you’re really trying to figure out are the terms: what you will and won’t do. ![]() Mainly because it can be really confusing! It doesn’t feel like you can go backwards, but sometimes you’re not sure you want to progress either. Not someone’s first time, but the territory that comes afterwards-the period when someone starts to be sexually active. What didn’t change, though, was the intention to write a book about sex. For some time, I’d been thinking about what impacts social media and having access to so much sexual content online might be having on relationships, and a college story suddenly seemed the perfect setting to explore just that. Literally, as it turned out-the first draft was set in the nineties.īut then my agent commented that it read very much like a contemporary story, and, instead of feeling disheartened, I actually felt like I’d been handed a permission slip. In the beginning, I wanted to go back to college. Summer Skin is the book that I would have liked to read in my late teens or early twenties, but it’s written with this generation of young adults in mind, the digital natives. ![]() Summer Skin is a contemporary YA novel dealing with the topic of older teen relationships, sex, feminism and identity. Kids' Book Review is delighted to welcome Australian author Kirsty Eagar to discuss her latest YA novel, Summer Skin (published by Allen & Unwin). ![]()
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