Lila Mackay is Very Misunderstood

The No.1 bestselling author of The Why Mummy series, Gill Sims, is back with her very first book for young YA readers!Fourteen-year-old Emily is gloomily spending the summer with her mum-s best friend Uncle Tom, helping him renovate his house, instead of being at home hoping the gorgeous Toby will ask her out. Worse, she-s broken her phone and left her iPad at her dad-s house. How is she supposed to survive without her tech, her BFF and her social life? No one understands her despair, least of all the boomers.Then she finds her mum-s old diary. MASSIVE CRINGE. But as Emily starts to read, she-s stunned to discover that her mum was once a teenager too. A nineties teenager called Lila MacKay, who was VERY MISUNDERSTOOD. It-s a long-forgotten era of weird fashions, TV shows and music Emily-s never heard of. There are boys too, notably cute Park Boy Tom and her mum-s dorky neighbour Weird Nicky. And as she becomes more and more invested in Lila-s teenage life, Emily begins to wonder if per