By Nat Luurtsema (author)
"In a nutshell: sharp, witty school and family based comedy"
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Nat Luurtsema made a splash with her first story about Lou Brown in Girl Out of Water , which saw her training a team of the school’s hottest boys in synchronised swimming. Now Lou is back in a new adventure which is just as slick and funny as the original and filled with sharp observations of teen and family life. Despite a variety of problems – both parents are now unemployed, her best friend Hannah has been co-opted into the prom committee by the class mean girls, and even lovely boyfriend Gabe is spending more time with his (all female) debating teammates than with her – Lou stays cheerful, and the worse things get for her, the funnier they are for readers. Guaranteed to make you laugh out loud, this is another perfect summer read.
Definitely one to recommend to fans of Holly Smale’s Geek Girl series.
The lives and loves of Lou Brown, Girl Out of Luck.Poverty sucks. Dad's timing the family's showers and refusing to turn on the heating. Mum has arranged for Lou to get lifts to school with Drippy Dermot and his eccentric mother in the Van of Doom.
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And lentils seem to feature in EVERY SINGLE MEAL. Lou is still coming down from her brief moment of TV super-stardom and getting to grips with the fact that - hold the news - SHE HAS A BOYFRIEND, but with both parents out of work, life isn't all plain sailing. Throw in Hannah's obsession with the school prom, Dad's strange shed activity and Lav's brief flirtation with a modelling career, and suddenly training a dance troupe to swim underwater seems like a walk in the park.
Nat Luurtsema is a BAFTA, Royal Society of Literature and Royal Academy of Art nominee. She is an award nominated stand-up comedian, appearing on Channel 4, BBC3 and Radio 4, and taking ten shows to the Edinburgh Festival. Her sketch group, Jigsaw , had two series of their own show on Radio 4. She wrote a short film, Island Queen , which was nominated for a BAFTA, and she's since written/directed six more short films. She plays Talulah Bankhead in Florence Foster Jenkins and her first feature, Butterfly Stroke , starring Judy Davis and Florence Hunt, is out to film festivals in 2026.
Nat is the author of six books, and her second one, Girl Out of Water, is being developed for TV with the BFI.
And most importantly, she overthinks a lot less than she used to.
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The lives and loves of Lou Brown, Girl Out of Luck.Poverty sucks. Dad's timing the family's showers and refusing to turn on the heating.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Lou Out of Luck and determined it is suitable for children aged 11-12 years old
Lou Out of Luck features in the following genres: Funny, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Books Reviewed by our Reader Review Panels, Recommendations, Recommended Children's eBooks, Featured Books for 11+ readers
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Lou Out of Luck was written by Nat Luurtsema and published by Walker Books
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