My idea was to tell a story that had the format of a romance -the meet cute, the relationship development, the third-act break-up -but about a platonic relationship, with the aim to show how magical and powerful platonic love could be.

It was a theme I’d explored somewhat in my previous novels -platonic soulmates Aled and Frances in Radio Silence, internet friendship and boyband brotherhood in I Was Born for This- but I wanted to bring that theme to the front and centre in my next book. Loveless began with my desire to tell a story about platonic love.

How was the “seed” for Loveless planted? How did that “seed” grow, and what nurtured it? Is she destined to remain loveless? Or has she been looking for the wrong thing all along? With new terms thrown at her-asexual, aromantic-Georgia is more uncertain about her feelings than ever. Georgia has never been in love, never kissed anyone, never even had a crush-but as a fanfic-obsessed romantic she’s sure she’ll find her person one day.Īs she starts university with her best friends, Pip and Jason, in a whole new town far from home, Georgia’s ready to find romance, and with her outgoing roommate on her side and a place in the Shakespeare Society, her ‘teenage dream’ is in sight.īut when her romance plan wreaks havoc amongst her friends, Georgia ends up in her own comedy of errors, and she starts to question why love seems so easy for other people but not for her. Today we’re pleased to welcome Alice Oseman to the WNDB blog to discuss her young adult novel Loveless, picked up by Scholastic for publication in the U.S.!

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