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Drawing Nudes While Making Other Plans
  • Published: 5 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761358012
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.00

Drawing Nudes While Making Other Plans

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5 May 2026
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5 May 2026
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A warm and funny Australian teen romance for readers who love Nina Kenwood, Jenny Han, Tobias Madden and Becky Albertalli.

Plan for the perfect summer before year 12:

* Do a life-drawing course at the Australian Art School. (Try not to freak out the first time you have to draw a naked man.)
* Find your friends. (Your real ones.)
* First kiss?! (Only if it’s with the right person.)
* Try not to wish your sister were still here. (Impossible!)
A warm and funny novel about finding yourself . . . in a room full of strangers, drawing naked people.

‘A vivid sense of place pulses through this novel with a heartfelt core and a glimpse of how imagination
can illuminate truth and connect us to others.’ Melina Marchetta, bestselling author of Looking for Alibrandi.
  • Published: 5 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761358012
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $24.00
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About the author

Zoe Gaetjens

As a year 11 student, Zoe Gaetjens attended a life drawing workshop where she failed to plan anything significant. She has since traded her charcoal for a laptop and writes books for children and young adults. When Zoe is not writing she works as a high school English teacher. She believes that the books you love as a teenager stay with you forever. Zoe lives just outside of Sydney with her husband and three kids.
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