The Sky is Everywhere is about seventeen year old Lennie Walker - she is obsessed with Wuthering Heights, plays the clarinet and is a total band geek. She is also prone to scattering her poems all over town since her sister Bailey died four weeks ago. Drowning in grief, Lennie becomes isolated and alone…
Until, of course, she meets the new and very attractive boy at band practise, Joe Fontaine. Soon, he is coming over to her house every morning, a basket of fresh croissants in his arm and a heart-melting grin. They fall in love and everything is starting to get better for Lennie – enter Toby, Bailey’s ex-boyfriend. He too is suffering badly from the loss of his girlfriend, and turns to Lennie as a confidant.
Both still stricken with grief, they too grow closer and closer, though sometimes too close. Lennie must learn how to deal with first love and first loss, and make some tough decisions along the way.
In my opinion, The Sky is Everywhere is an amazing book. It is captivating and beautifully written, full of hand-written poems and notes from Lennie along her journey. The story is heart-breakingly wonderful and impossible to put down and I cannot recommend it enough!
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