Try the new Google Books Buy eBook - 9.99. She sees a therapist regularly, and though she has already made progress before the book begins, she still has difficulty throughout her day and life. Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features. Gornall’s style is informal, quirky, funny and original in tone. Norah lives with her mother and suffers from her agoraphobia and OCD. Written from the perspective of Norah, a teenager battling with the daily struggles of OCD and agoraphobia, Under Rose-Tainted Skies tackles mental health issues gently and with sensitivity.

Agent: Mandy Hubbard, Emerald City Literary. 'Under Rose-Tainted Skies' is an incredible book about mental illness, healing and familial love. Through Norah’s poetic internal monologue, Gornall, whose own experience with mental illness helped inform Norah’s story, provides an intimate glimpse into the mind of a young woman battling some very real demons. While Luke’s almost-too-good-to-be-true patience and persistence help spur Norah to push herself in new ways, Gornall doesn’t minimize the role of therapy in the progress she makes nor the difficult work that still lies ahead for the teenager.

Norah’s unease permeates the pages (“Musings, meanderings, conversations that haven’t even happened run in one continuous loop around my head”), leaving readers with a deep understanding of the limitations of her conditions. After a cute boy named Luke moves in next door and takes an interest in her, Norah manages to fight her urges to hide away, slowly befriending him and showing him who she really is, phobias and all. Seventeen-year-old Norah has incapacitating OCD and agoraphobia: she hasn’t been outside of her home, except to see her therapist, in nearly four years.

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