Second McCourt novel from Felicity

This week sees the launch of NW author Felicity McCall’s second young adult novel featuring her teenage diarist, Aimee McCourt Logan, and her happily dysfunctional family and friends as they live and laugh through life in the Maiden City.

Infectious Monogamy, Boy Detox and other Exam Meltdowns takes up their story shortly after Aimee’s sixteenth birthday: ‘New Year has dawned at 1A Riverview, and for Aimee McCourt Logan (AKA your narrator) reality is encroaching in the form of GCSEs, job applications, and, it seems, an unprecedented outbreak of committed monogamy- usually involving unsuitable and possibly illegal males. A boy detox may be the only alternative. Austerity measures are threatening the life-enhancing link between her school, Castle Grove, and Knockgorey with Foxrock, home of her Twin Caoimhe (and her love god brother Darren.) Add to this a feminist mammy considering cosmetic surgery; a lonesome da threatening to ruin the family’s reputation, a gran hell-bent on getting a criminal record, a disappearing cat, and it’s clear that her 17th year is going to be a challenge. Then Aimeeand her friends suddenly find themselves poised for international stardom- or are they?’

A must read for fans of the acclaimed debut young adult novel, Large Mammals, Stick Insects and Other Social Misfits, (Little Island 2012) , Infectious Monogamy ....can also be enjoyed as a stand alone title.

Of the writing process, McCall says ‘I am indebted to the readers who shared their feedback from Large Mammals and contributed their own thoughts on what life might have in store for Aimee, Beks and Bree. Also, my involvement with Poetry Ireland’s Writers in Schools programme has enabled me to share Aimee’s world with young readers throughout Ireland. I look forward to continuing to share her story through Infectious Monogamy ....and, I hope, recruiting new readers as well..The energy of these sessions is invaluable and inspirational.

Infectious Monogamy, Boy Detox and Other Exam Meltdowns is available through Amazon and is due in bookshops shortly, priced £5.25 and is also available on Kindle.