Publisher details

Author: Megan Jacobson
Publisher: Penguin
Genres: Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
Released: 31 July, 2017
ISBN: 9780143573388

The Build-Up Season

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Synopsis

Seventeen-year-old Iliad Piper is named after war and angry at the world. Growing up with a violent father and abused mother, she doesn’t know how to do relationships, family or friends. A love-hate friendship with Max turns into a prank war, and she nearly destroys her first true friendship with misfit Mia.She takes off her armour for nobody, until she meets Jared, someone who's as complicated as she is.

About the author

Megan Jacobson

Megan Jacobson grew up in Darwin and the far north coast of New South Wales, but now lives in Sydney, where she works in TV news production at the ABC. She has a degree in journalism and has worked as a question writer for TV game shows, and as an in-house script storyliner and script editor for several Australian television dramas. Her short stories have been published in the Sydney Morning Herald, aired on ABC radio, appeared in the UTS writers’ anthology I can see my house from here and in the Review of Australian Fiction.