Sarra Manning writes young adult and adult contemporary fiction about friendship, romance, fashion and people whose emotional lives are messier than their public personas suggest. Adorkable pairs outspoken blogger Jeane Smith with popular Michael Lee after their apparently incompatible social worlds collide. Guitar Girl follows an all-female band's rise through the music industry and the pressure success places on friendship. Her adult novels include You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, about Neve, body image and a relationship that begins as practice rather than commitment, and Unsticky, which centres on an unequal financial and sexual arrangement. Manning's work fits British contemporary romance, YA friendship fiction and music- or fashion-centred stories. Read more Less