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  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9781742530925
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 264

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend



Cassie is in grief over the death of her best friend, Julia, who died behind the wheel in a road accident.

Cassie is in grief over the death of her best friend, Julia, who died behind the wheel in a road accident. She had unrequited romantic feelings for her friend, and now she is determined to cycle from Illinois to California with Julia's ashes, so she can scatter them in the ocean that Julia never managed to see.
Over the course of her trip, through various experiences and encounters, Cassie confirms to herself that she is gay. And then, when her bike and most of her money is stolen, she discovers her true friends and a sort of unhoped-for salvation.
Interspersed through the narrative is the unfolding love story between Heather and Cassie, as Heather slowly reveals to Cassie her true feelings, and Cassie begins to open up to the possibility of reciprocal romance.

  • Published: 28 June 2010
  • ISBN: 9781742530925
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 264

About the author

Emily Horner

Emily Horner was born in Ottawa, Ontario and has since lived in Montreal, northeastern France, southwestern Japan, Texas, North Carolina, and Brooklyn (New York), where she is living right now and intends to stay for a while.

She's a self-confessed geek with a lot of momentary obsessions and strange hobbies who reckoned she could become a librarian or a writer, and being terminally indecisive, became both. She also bakes, plays in a Rock Band, messes around with Linux, listens to Japanese pop music and Canadian folk music, knits, learns languages and argues about politics.

She loves musicals and bicycles and Japanese movies and it was perhaps only logical that she should end up writing a book like A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend, which has musicals and bicycles and ninjas!

This is Emily's first novel.