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Author_Kelly McCaughrain
Carnegie shortlist
Carnegie shortlisted author
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CBI Award
class and privilege YA
dating and sex
doomed romance
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fated mates
Flying Tips for Flightless Birds
hedonism teen
hedonism YA
Irish children's author
Irish fiction
Irish YA
Kelly McCaughrain
Little Bang
love and death teen
love and death YA
Northern Ireland Children's Laureate
Northern Irish author
privileged teens
Romeo & Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
social class
speculative romance
YA rising star
Product details
- ISBN 9781529523041
- Weight: 240g
- Dimensions: 128 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A high-stakes love and death romance set in a luxury resort by a multiple award-winning, Carnegie-shortlisted author: They Both Die at the End meets Romeo and Juliet meets The White Lotus.
DON’T FALL IN LOVE.
That’s the only rule.
In this world, everyone knows their death date. If you’re rich, you can check in to a resort to have the greatest final few weeks of your life, in five-star luxury.
Regan works at one of these resorts as a “Juliet”. Her next client is Jude, who has a week to live. Regan’s job is simple: make Jude feel as though he has found true love before he dies.
But when a fake romance starts to become something else, can they take on Fate together – before Jude's death date catches up with them?
Kelly McCaughrain's debut Flying Tips for Flightless Birds won an unprecedented hat-trick of awards at the 2019 Children's Books Ireland Awards, as well as the Northern Ireland Book Award. Her YA novel Little Bang is shortlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Award for Writing and the Children's Books Ireland Awards. Just Another Dead Boy is her first YA speculative romance. Kelly was Children's Writing Fellow for Northern Ireland 2019-2021. She lives in Belfast.
