I recently – finally – read We Were Liars, the book that propelled her to YA fame, and while the thriller was super intriguing and well-writen, my favourite novel by her hand is still the very clever and thought provoking The Disresputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks. Lockhart, the characters within the pages are so realistic and the stories so diverse that each new book is an exciting discovery. Will their friendship survive the endless drama of camp, or will it only push them further apart? Maybe they only gravitated towards one another because no-one else in their tiny town understood them, not because they naturally clicked.
They get different interests and different friends, and they have to face the realisation that maybe they weren't meant to be best friends after all. They both get in and couldn't be happier to finally get away from the nothingness of their home town, and have a chance to show their true selves and shine.īut as they start their time at summer camp, one of them starts to flourish and the other one is only mediocre. They watch endless musicals together, singing along and re-enacting the most famous scenes, have tons of stagey in-jokes, and audition together for a special summer camp dedicated to theatre. Sarah and Douglas, better known as Sadye and Demi, are two best friends in a tiny town who love everything to do with theatre. So when I heard of Dramarama, written by one of my current favourite young adult authors, being set at summer theatre camp I was instantly sold.
It doesn't occur often that it's the other way around though and it's a book that brings all of the stageyness rather than a novel being adapted for the theatre. You guys know that two of my biggest passions in life are books and theatre, and when the two come together (see Matilda the Musicaland The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, for example) magic happens.
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