Searching for Amy

<p><strong><em>Searching for Amy </em>is a gripping coming-of-age story that tackles the issue of intimate image abuse with compassion and truth.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>When Harry asked me to the party it took less than thirty seconds to say yes.</em></p><p><em>I've spent every waking moment since regretting it.</em></p><p></p><p>Meet Amy part-time barista at Jon's café - studies English makes a perfect flat white doesn't go out much no social media presence. Almost like she has something to hide...</p><p></p><p>Back at school Harry had seemed like the perfect person to lose her virginity to - good-looking popular and her best friend's cousin. The sex was consensual. The video however was not.</p><p></p><p>Now she's at uni and all that is behind her - but she can't escape the feeling that anytime anywhere someone might recognise her.</p><p></p><p><em>How can you rebuild your life when there's no-one left you trust?</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>Amy's first person narrative moves between her present life at uni working in a cafe and trying to forget what happened to her and the story of how one night at a party changed her life. Suitable for readers of 15+ it has themes of sex intimate image abuse and mild swearing. Of interest to any young people navigating adolescence and the internet and any parents trying valiantly to do and say the right thing.</p>