Abbie Palmer is ecstatic when she receives an e-mail from her beautiful French 'e-mate' Colette telling her she wants to visit in the summer holidays. Then Abbie realises Colette will find out she lied about her background, so she tries to put her off with a message saying she is going away for the summer. Unfortunately Colette doesn't get Abbie's message. She turns up unexpectedly and that's when Abbie's problems start. First of all Colette turns out to be an absolute stunner. She looks more like eighteen than sixteen and Abbie feels young and fat in comparison. Secondly Abbie has fallen in love with the gorgeous Richard Farnham, a young teaching student who is going to do his placement at Abbie's school, but Richard falls for Colette instead, even though Colette claims to be in love with someone else. Abbie is heartbroken, but tries not to let them know how she feels. Can she ever make Richard notice her, or will he be always out of reach?
Tracey Morait was born in Liverpool, England, in 1964, where she lived up until 1990 when she moved to Bristol in order to work as a librarian. There she met Keith Mitchell, and was married in 1993. They've been married for seventeen years but have no children.
Tracey writes novels for children and young adults between the ages of nine and sixteen. 'Goalden Girl' was published in 2007 and is about Gemma's quest to start a football team for girls at her new school. 'Abbie's Rival' was published in 2008 and tells the story of Abbie's jealousy of her pen pal's relationship with the student teacher she secretly loves. Tracey gets most of her ideas from events which have happened in her life and which are of particular interest to her. In 2000 Tracey was diagnosed with epilepsy, and this has inspired her to write 'Epiworld', a futuristic tale about Travis's seizures controlling his destiny, published in June 2010. As a huge fan of Liverpool Football Club, she plans to write more books about football. All of Tracey's novels are set in the United Kingdom.
Tracey works as a contract librarian, a casual health care assistant, and, because she's in a permanent homesick state, goes home to Liverpool as often as she can.
