Audrey, Wait! » (Reprint)

Robin Benway grew up in Orange County, California and attended college at both NYU & UCLA. At NYU, she won the 1997 Seth Barkas Prize for Best Fiction by an Undergraduate. She has held a variety of positions in the publishing industry, including part-time salesperson at Borders, publicist at both Ballantine and Knopf, and publicity director at Book Soup in West Hollywood.

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It's the song everyone's singing. And it's about her! But for Audrey, becoming famous overnight equals total, life-changing disaster. . .

Publishers Weekly

When Audrey breaks up with her musician boyfriend, Evan, he is inspired to write a song about it, a catchy tune that launches his band to the top of the music charts—and that makes Audrey the target of paparazzi and gossip magazines—and the queen bee at school. Although Audrey tries to hide from fame, it finds her anyway (a first date with a co-worker ends with a police escort from a record store, where a crowd has trapped them). Audrey's phenomenal celebrity seems unlikely but she herself feels completely believable, and readers will find her both sympathetic and funny. Benway displays a keen ear for dialogue; this first novelist has a knack for showcasing her characters' wit as well as their sincere concern for one another. Right after Audrey hears Evan's song for the first time, for example, she asks her best friend, "So do I kill myself now, or do I wait and do it in front of Evan so he feels really, really, reallybad?" "You're not going to kill yourself," the friend replies. "Remember in health class, when they talked about how adolescents drink to mask pain? That'swhat you're going to do." (Note to worried adults:they drink a milkshake.) Irresistible. Ages 12-up. (Apr.)

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