Good Girls Don't

"My past is a list of experiences. Not mistakes, experiences, and if I had the chance to go back and change something, I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t be me otherwise. But I do wish that the past would just stay put . . ."

Good girls behave themselves. Good girls work hard. Good girls always do the right thing.

Emily Keating is not a good girl by these standards, but she’s trying. She wants to help her friends – even if it means skipping school or kissing them when she probably shouldn’t. She wants to be a good friend to everyone – even Hugh, her ex, who she still has unresolved issues with. Even Lucy, her former crush, who’s toyed with Emily’s heart more than once. Even Barry, her dearest friend, who everyone insists she has chemistry with.

But at what point do you need to stop sorting everyone else’s life out and find your own happy ending – even if that means hurting someone you care about?

Originally published by Poolbeg Press in 2004, Good Girls Don’t is now available in a digital edition for the first time.

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