Where I Left My Heart: A Moving Story of Love, Loss, and Identity

A MOVING STORY OF LOVE, LOSS, AND IDENTITY Bea believes she's the most boring teenager in the world. At 17, she's not popular, funny, or pretty. The only interesting thing in her life is her father, who abandoned her before she was even born and now lives in Paris. Bea receives an invitation to spend the holidays in Malaga, with a bonus: she can get away from her irritating and controlling mother. However, after just 48 hours in Spain, she finds herself changing her itinerary. Yearning for Parisian life every moment of her dull existence, she ends up in the City of Lights, searching for the father she never knew. Along the way, she meets Toph, an American student backpacking through Europe, and instead of finding her father in the cafes and boulevards of Paris, she ends up losing her mind a little. But she might find much more than she bargained for. She might find herself. • Sarra Manning is a journalist. She began writing at Melody Maker and spent five years at the legendary British teen magazine J17—first as a writer and then as an editor. She has also contributed to the BBC, ElleGirl UK, InStyle, The Guardian, Time Out, and others.