New Young Adult Novel by Lauri Kubuitsile: Signed, Hopelessly in Love

Amo lives with her grandmother in Botswana. She is best friends with Nono, the school’s star athlete, and works on the school newspaper. When she is asked to write the agony column she finds herself giving advice to the boy she is in love with, with dire results.

Can she face the humiliation of having declared her love believing that it will be reciprocated?

Signed, Hopelesly in Love hits all the core notes for a great read: it is set in a high school, with entertaining main characters and incidents, there is the great love story of John Gababonwe, and the interfering parent in Granma, not to mention school bitchiness in the attack on Nono on the athletics track.

A wonderfully original and humorous story.

Signed, Hopelesly in Love was a finalist in the 2009 Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature.

About the author

Lauri Kubuitsile is a full-time writer living in Botswana. She has published three children’s books, two detective novellas and three collections of short stories for children co-written with two other Batswana writers. Her first romance novel, Kwaito Love, was published by Sapphire Press in April 2010.

She was the 2007 winner of the BTA/Anglo Platinum Short Story Contest and the recipient of the Botswana Ministry of Youth and Culture’s Orange Botswerere Award for Creative Writing in the same year. In 2009 she won the Baobab Literary Prize (USA) in the junior category. Kubuitsile is married and has two teenage children.

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• Signed, Hopelessly in Love by Lauri Kubuitsile
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