

She doesn’t feel that way about other people.

It is just actually having another person to share her life with, or even just kiss that she can’t understand. She knows all about romance and what she likes, such as a big white wedding. Loveless is a YA book about a young girl who feels different as she has never had a moment of passion or even had butterflies over someone else.

However, romance and dating are not easy to come by for Georgia like they are for others and so she questions why she is loveless. When she moves to Durham University with her friends Pip and Jason she is hoping that her feelings towards kissing and sex may change and sets about trying to be like everyone else and find that special someone with the help of her new roommate and their acting club. She has told friends for years that she fancies one of the lads from school but when he makes his move on prom night she is disgusted with herself and realises that it was all an act and that she has never felt that way about anyone, nor does she want to be kissed.

This wise, warm and witty story of identity and self-acceptance sees Alice Oseman on towering form as Georgia and her friends discover that true love isn’t limited to romance.Įighteen-year-old Georgia has never been in love, had a crush on a guy or a girl, and never been kissed. Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along? With new terms thrown at her – asexual, aromantic – Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush – but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person one day.Īs she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, in a whole new town far from home, Georgia’s ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society, her ‘teenage dream’ is in sight.īut when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. No boys, no girls, not a single person I had ever met.
