Seven Days
04 January 2024Synopsis
A beautiful and warm YA contemporary about finding love after loss, from a stunning new voice.
This is a story about Noori and Aamir. A story about grief, family, and the unexpected turns life can take. A story of first love.
Noori has it all sussed out. She may only be sixteen and a Bollywood fanatic with an incredible lack of foresight, but she knows a thing or two about life and its messy heartaches. When she runs into Aamir, a scruffy desi dude with tea-stained eyes, her confused soul turns upside-down. There is something about him she can’t work out.
Aamir is trying to escape a misunderstood and painful past. When his world collides with Noori’s, life gets even more complicated. Invisible threads connect them. Will they both realize what's at stake, before they run out of time?
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04 January 2024
9781529513967Reviews
Romantic, humorous, thoroughly modern and one that left me wondering whether the outcome of this boy-meets-girl tale would be a positive one right until the very end.
At times it made me cry and laugh and I really wanted to stay with Noori and Aamir. In the end, it was their love for each other that drew me into their story and kept me with them page after page.
This is a lyrical, immersive, and beautifully haunting debut which finds us desperately hoping Noori and Aamir can find their connection, believe in it and understand it. We become one with them and we want the best for them.
I was swept up in the story of these two teenagers – a story of first love – as I’m sure many readers of around Noori’s age will be. I look forward to more from Rebeka Shaid; this is an intensely moving debut novel.
