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Katherine | 15 comments Is it possible to post a separate book description for the American edition of this title--Love and Other Perishable Items? The current description does not take into account several of the differences between the Australian and American editions. For example, Amelia, the protagonist, does not work at Woolworth's in the American edition, as the descriptive copy suggests, she works at a store called "Cole's." Here is the book description as the American publisher is running it:

Love is awkward, Amelia should know.
From the moment she sets eyes on Chris, she is a goner. Lost. Sunk. Head over heels infatuated with him. It's problematic, since Chris, 21, is a sophisticated university student, while Amelia, 15, is 15.
Amelia isn't stupid. She knows it's not gonna happen. So she plays it cool around Chris—at least, as cool as she can. Working checkout together at the local supermarket, they strike up a friendship: swapping life stories, bantering about everything from classic books to B movies, and cataloging the many injustices of growing up. As time goes on, Amelia's crush doesn't seem so one-sided anymore. But if Chris likes her back, what then? Can two people in such different places in life really be together?
Through a year of befuddling firsts—first love, first job, first party, and first hangover—debut author Laura Buzo shows how the things that break your heart can still crack you up.


message 2: by Amara (new)

Amara Tanith (aftanith) Done. Editions with the Australian title now read:

A wonderful, coming-of-age love story from a fresh new voice in YA fiction.

'Miss Amelia Hayes, welcome to The Land of Dreams. I am the staff trainer. I will call you grasshopper and you will call me sensei and I will give you the good oil. Right? And just so you know, I'm open to all kinds of bribery.'

From the moment 15-year-old Amelia begins work on the checkout at Woolworths she is sunk, gone, lost...head-over-heels in love with Chris. Chris is the funny, charming, man-about-Woolies, but he's 21, and the 6-year difference in their ages may as well be 100. Chris and Amelia talk about everything from Second Wave Feminism to Great Expectations and Alien but will he ever look at her in the way she wants him to? And if he does, will it be everything she hopes?


And editions under the American title have the description you provided.


Katherine | 15 comments It seems the description has reverted back again... any way to fix this again?


message 4: by vicki_girl (new)

vicki_girl | 2764 comments Fixed and added a note to the American editions. Hopefully that will keep this from happening again.


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