Bøger af Amanda Bateman

"Reading the essays in TIE DYE TUESDAY is like reading Bateman's personal diary. She fuses her fears of adulthood with her own struggles as both a camp counselor and a college student. She captures the camper in all of us." - Rob Spadafore THE SILVER BIN At eighteen years old, Amanda Bateman applied to be a counselor at a Girl Scout camp in Western Pennsylvania. For the next four years, instead of looking for internships or working a part time job, she canoes, eats chicken fingers, and fights raccoons. Tie Dye Tuesday is a reflection of what those years as a counselor as well as what camping with her family has made her believe about family, friendship, and herself. It is a memoir of the summers between her four years in college and trying to grow up while being paid to act like a kid.

The story picks up with Janie Arnold making a life changing decision to help her cousin Megan and hopefully to leave Janie free to start her own life. Whilst on holiday in Lanzarote she meets Adam, a boat builder from back home in Wales and Alison another holiday maker from Derbyshire. Life is finally starting to look up for Janie.

The Arnolds aren't like many families, but then Elsie Arnold isn't like other mothers. Selfish to her core, Elsie's only concern is herself and her happiness, little caring about her husband, Harry, or four children left behind in her wake. If a better option comes along, she has no hesitation about taking it.