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  • Published: 30 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781616957049
  • Imprint: Soho Teen
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $22.99

The Girl with the Wrong Name




Edgar Nominee Barnabas Miller's solo debut presents a haunting down-the-rabbit-hole odyssey with the tortured introspection of It's Kind of a Funny Story, and a narrator as unreliable as those in Memento and Fight Club.

Ever since The Night in Question left her with a hideous scar and no memory of what happened, Theo Lane has been hiding. An aspiring filmmaker, she uses a hidden button cam to keep the world at bay. She spends the entire summer in a Manhattan café, secretly documenting random “subjects.”

Once school starts, Theo finds her best friend has morphed into a flirtatious, short-skirt-clad stranger. Everyone ignores the scar. As if that will make it go away. The café remains her lunchtime refuge.

Her most interesting subject is the Lost Boy, a stranger who comes in every day at the same time. When she finally gets up the courage to talk to him she discovers why: the Lost Boy, Andy, is waiting for someone who said she’d meet him there . . . four days ago. Intoxicated by Andy’s love for this mystery girl, Theo agrees to help him find her, and her unhealthy obsession pulls her into a perilous, mind-bending journey. But is it really Andy’s world she’s investigating? Or is it her own?

  • Published: 30 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9781616957049
  • Imprint: Soho Teen
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Barnabas Miller

Barnabas Miller is the author of many books for children and young adults. He also composes and produces music for film and television. He lives in New York City with his wife, Heidi; their cat, Ted; and their dog, Zooey.

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Praise for The Girl with the Wrong Name

Praise for The Girl with the Wrong Name
"You won't know which way is up, whom to love, or whom to trust. Theo is my favorite type of heroine: witty, lonely, fierce, and terrifyingly intelligent. A brain-shattering rollercoaster ride of a novel."
--E. LOCKHART, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars

"It might take a while to unbend your brain . . . [A] thrilling, insightful, and fully original tale."
--ALEX LONDON, bestselling author of Proxy

"Deliciously snarky humor, poignant teen angst, family dysfunction, budding romance, and sly class commentary . . . A twisted, Hitchcock-worthy page-turner about love and evil."
--LIBBA BRAY, New York Times bestselling author of the Michael L. Printz award winner Going Bovine

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