For Samantha however, the Garretts provided an escape from her boring, micro-managed life. As a family with eight children, Grace distanced herself and her daughters from them due to her belief that they are chaotic and irresponsible people. As the summer begins, Tracy leaves to work in Martha's Vineyard, leaving Samantha feeling abandoned and smothered by their mother.Īfter having a bad meeting with Clay, her mother's new campaign manager and boyfriend, Samantha retreats to her balcony where she's spent years watching her neighbors, the Garretts. Due to her mother's commitment to her career, Samantha and her sister Tracy are often pressured to be perfect. After her father left when she was a baby, Samantha's mother, Grace, threw herself into a career in politics which leads to her being State Senator when the story begins. Samantha Reed is a 17-year-old American teenager living in the fictional town of Stony Bay, Connecticut.
On 7 January 2016, the My Life Next Door paperback was republished by Electric Monkey, an imprint of Egmont. The paperback was published by Speak, another imprint of Penguin Random House, almost a year later on 13 June 2013.
My Life Next Door was originally published by Dial, an imprint of Penguin Random House, on 14 June 2012 in hardback and eBook editions.
She credits a young couple who were laughing, teasing each other, and taking photographs together as a main inspiration for Samantha and Jase. She found inspiration for this book when going about her daily life, in everyday situations like visiting the beach or shopping, where she found herself scribbling notes and ideas down on old receipts. Background and publication history įitzpatrick recognized that some aspects of her characters in My Life Next Door come from the people around her, although no characters were based on any specific person, especially not her sister.
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