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Who says youth is wasted on the young? Jasper wants to get on in the world, but life is distracting. He’s got his A-levels to contend with, his mother pushing him to overachieve, weekly visits to his psychologist, come-downs, YouTube suicides and pregnant one-night-stands. And then there's his step-dad - the murderer. Hilarious and heartbreaking by turns, GROW UP is the ultimate twenty-first-century coming-of-age novel.

When Bobby meets Julie during an idyllic summer in the 1950s, they begin a relationship that will haunt them until the ends of their lives. Except for two school dropouts who seem to have nothing better to do than to harass the pair, the summer passes like a beautiful dream for them. That dream ends when fate intrudes and turns it into a nightmare. Through it all, it seems they will persevere. Until they don’t.