Call Me Madeleine

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Betrayed by those she trusted, banished to a small town. Can a childhood friend help her find hope in a burning world? Madeleine' s climate change activism has her at loggerheads with her widowed Grandpa. The world' s weather is extreme, and she fears we may be past the tipping point. Maddy' s petrolhead boyfriend, Liam, doesn' t see things her way, and her best friend, Mia, has a secret crush on him. After an act of defiance, Maddy' s parents send her to spend the holidays apart from Liam, with Grandpa, in small-town New Zealand. He lives in an isolated villa on MacTaggart Hill. She begins to understand Grandpa' s generation when she reads his manuscript, but their relationship is erratic. On a lonely horse ride, she meets a childhood friend, Christopher, who is on a mission to save the local wetland from development. He may be the friend she needs when the village experiences a series of devastating climate-related events and her relationships are falling apart. But can she depend on him? A Young Adult, Cli-Fi (climate change fiction) with family drama and a romantic subplot, by the author of Trainsurfer, Saving Thandi and Nikau' s Escape. The story is threaded through with Christian themes.