Invisibly Breathing
Author(s): Eileen Merriman
NZ Teen Fiction | Teen Fiction
A moving story about unconventional love, bullying and being true to yourself. ‘I wish I wasn’t the weirdest sixteen-year-old guy in the universe.’ Felix would love to have been a number. Numbers have superpowers and they’re safe – any problem they might throw up can be solved. 'If I were a five, I’d be shaped like a pentagon … there’d be magic in my walls, safety in my angles.' People are so much harder to cope with. At least that’s how it seems until Bailey Hunter arrives at school. Bailey has a stutter, but he can make friends and he’s good at judo. And Bailey seems to have noticed Felix... Both boys find they’re living in a world where they can’t trust anyone, but might they be able to trust each other, with their secrets, their differences, themselves?
Triesten's Review - A stunning new YA romance from local author Eileen Merriman. At turns, heart-warming & heart-breaking, this story of coming out & first love will turn you into a Merriman fan for life.
Product Information
Finalist in the 2019 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults - Young Adult Fiction Award
“Author Eileen Merriman has created characters and situations which numerous young people can easily connect with. It makes this more than just a book to be read, but gripping literature which both celebrates love and also exposes society’s harmful behaviour towards love that is not considered ‘conventional’. As a reader, this made for a read that was both refreshing and thought-provoking. Rating 5/5 stars.” - Faga Tuigamala, Tearaway
'Eileen Merriman creates genuine teenage characters' - NZ Books
General Fields
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- : Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited
- : Penguin Books (NZ)
- : 0.252
- : December 2018
- : 2.1 Centimeters X 12.9 Centimeters X 19.7 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Eileen Merriman
- : 288
- : 823.3
- : Paperback