PERFECT
(Flawed #2)
by Cecelia
Ahern
Pub.
Date: April 4, 2017
Celestine North lives in a society that demands perfection. After she was
branded Flawed by a morality court, Celestine's life has completely
fractured--all her freedoms gone.
Since Judge Crevan has declared her the number one threat to the public,
she has been a ghost, on the run with Carrick--the only person she can trust.
But Celestine has a secret--one that could bring the entire Flawed system
crumbling to the ground. A secret that has already caused countless people to
go missing.
Judge Crevan is gaining the upper hand, and time is running out for
Celestine. With tensions building, Celestine must make a choice: save just
herself or to risk her life to save all Flawed people.
And, most important of all, can she prove that to be human in itself is
to be Flawed?
FLAWED
by Cecilia
Ahern
Celestine North lives a perfect life. She's a model daughter and sister,
she's well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she's dating the
impossibly charming Art Crevan.
But then Celestine encounters a situation in which she makes an instinctive
decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She
could be imprisoned. She could be branded. She could be found FLAWED.
In her breathtaking young adult debut, bestselling author Cecelia Ahern depicts
a society in which perfection is paramount and flaws are punished. And where
one young woman decides to take a stand that could cost her everything.
Excerpt:
They stay there for
three hours.
My muscles burn, my feet
ache, but I’m afraid to move.
When the fire has
reduced to a smolder, Granddad and Dahy are ordered to place the bundles of
food onto the coals. The farmworkers watch from their orderly line, their F brand armbands all visible on their
right arms, just above their elbow.
This was supposed to be
a celebration, a coming together to show that the Guild couldn’t beat them
down. Now the Whistleblowers themselves are here. Hiding behind the tree,
huddled on the ground, hugging my legs, shivering from the damp forest, I can’t
say that I feel empowered. This feels like a defeat.
Granddad and Dahy cover
the food with the soil so it will cook under the ground in the heat. Granddad
looks at the ground, his work finished, as though he’s buried me alive. Again I
want to call out to him that I’m okay, I made it out, but I can’t.
A phone rings and the
female Whistleblower takes it. She steps aside, walks away from the others, so
she can talk in private. She moves closer to me in the woods. I tense up again.
“Judge Crevan, hello.
It’s Kate. No, Judge, Celestine isn’t here. We’ve checked everywhere.”
Silence as she listens
and I hear Crevan’s voice from where I stand. Kate walks farther and stops by
my tree.
I press my back to the
tree, squeeze my eyes shut, and hold my breath.
“With all due respect,
Judge, this is the Guild’s sixth visit to the property and I believe Mary May
was meticulous in her search. We’ve checked everywhere you can imagine. I don’t
believe she’s here. I think the grandfather is telling the truth.”
I can hear the
frustration in her voice. They’re all under pressure to find me, pressure
placed on them by Judge Crevan. Kate takes a few more steps, right into my
eyeline.
She slowly scans the
forest, her eyes searching the distance.
Then she looks right at
me.
About
Cecilia:
At
twenty-one, Cecelia wrote her first novel PS, I Love You, which was sold to
forty-seven countries. The film of the same title, directed by Richard
LaGravenese and produced by Wendy Finerman productions, starred Hilary Swank,
Lisa Kudrow, Kathy Bates, Gerry Butler, Harry Connick Jr, Gina Gershon and
Jeffrey Dean Morgan. PS, I Love You was one of the biggest-selling debut novels
of 2004, reaching number 1 in Ireland and in the UK Sunday Times bestseller
list. It was also a bestseller throughout Europe and the USA, staying on the
best-seller list in Germany for 52 weeks.
That same year, in November 2004, her second book Where Rainbows End (as Rosie
Dunne hardback in the US, Love, Rosie paperback in US) also reached no.1 in
Ireland and the UK, remaining at the top of the Irish bestsellers list for 12
weeks and again was a bestseller internationally. Where Rainbows End was
adapted for film titled Love, Rosie and will be released in Oct 2014, starring
Lily Collins and Sam Claflin.
Her third book If You Could See Me Now was published in November 2005 and also
became an international bestseller. It has been optioned by producer Simon
Brooks, producer of Love, Rosie.
Cecelia’s fourth novel A Place Called Here (published under the title There’s
No Place Like Here in the US) also became an international number one
bestseller.
Thanks For The Memories her fifth novel was also a huge bestseller and is now
being adapted for a TV Drama Series by Gate Productions.
The Gift was published in October 2008 and became an International bestseller.
It is optioned by Oscar winning producer Andreas Bareiss, and it is going into
production later this year.
Her seventh novel The Book Of Tomorrow was released in October 2009 and eOne
Television are developing it for a TV series in the US.
In March of 2011 her two short stories, Girl in the Mirror were published.
In November by Cecelia’s eighth novel The Time Of My Life was published and
also became a bestseller.
Her ninth novel One Hundred Names was published in October 2012 and became a
number one bestseller.
Her tenth novel How To Fall In Love was published last November and also became
another bestseller.
To date Cecelia has sold over 22 million copies of her books worldwide.
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