SOLVED. YA contemporary. Girl goes to a summer programme with other youths. Cover: blue with splodgy block colour yellow and pink butterflies? [s]

[Hannah]

I read this book in either 2018 or 2019 I'm pretty sure. The cover was bright blue with yellow and pink butterflies on and I think the title had the word butterfly/butterflies in it. It is written in a 'now - then' alternating format. **Spoilers ahead** The main character is a girl whose mother was a world renowned opera singer before she damaged her voice and became depressed I think. The first chapter I distinctly remember her putting on insect repellent after them landing in a small plane in the middle of nowhere. She is carrying a small bag of belongings and realizes they won't be staying in a "resort" type place but camping outside. She is on this programme with other youths, one was a moody girl I think who refuses to sleep in her tent with the other girls and one is this really dominant menacing boy. Later on they camp on a small beach by a river and they are all in the water when the horrible boy in question grabs her and I think he says something disgusting like :"I can r*pe you and drown you at the same time' She is rescued I think and he gets in trouble. In terms of the 'then' perspective her mom was an opera singer but got depressed because her voice was changed forever, no one wanted her to perform anymore. She finds this new boyfriend who gets on really well with the daughter after a while and they try to cheer her mom up all the time. The daughter had a part in the school play (Wizard of Oz I think) and her mom didn't want to help because it brought back memories. One day the boyfriend comes home and the mom has gassed herself in the garage with carbon monoxide and died. It's just been bugging me so much that I couldn't remember the title!

[Hannah]

I think there was also maybe a love interest but I'm not 100%

[Hannah]

And I think the mom's boyfriend was foreign and liked travelling

[Monica]

Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined? Wrong cover/title, but here's a review with plot description:

"Setting a coming-of-age story in the framework of an unwelcome wilderness expedition is a bit of a tired conceit, but in Younge-Ullman's outstanding YA novel, a teen's backwoods journey becomes exciting and emotionally engrossing. Ingrid has had an unorthodox upbringing with a single opera star mother who suffers a devastating career loss. After Mom is forced to settle into a more traditional job and life, she is almost completely derailed by deep depression. As part of a mother-daughter deal to find a healthy future for both, Ingrid is sent on a youth wilderness trip. Mostly set in the northern Ontario wilderness, the novel alternates between the "now" of the 21-day trek and the "then" of Ingrid's turbulent adjustment to settled life. Ingrid's never-sent letters to her mother appear throughout the narrative and detail her physical and emotional struggles through attacks of vampirelike mosquitoes and black flies, grueling portages, and much more challenging experiences, including an attempted sexual assault."

[Hannah]

Monica wrote: "Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined? Wrong cover/title, but here's a review with plot description:

"Setting a coming-of-age story in the framework of an unwelcome wilderness expedit..."

Oh my gosh! Yayyyy! Thankyou so much Monica! It is the book I was looking for! Do you know how I changed this to solved! Thankyou so much, I never thought I would find it :)