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Buzz Club

Xena Knox, Author

Imprint: Hodder Children's Books

Publication date: January 30, 2025

Category: Humorous stories (Children's / Teenage)

ISBN: 9781444972085

A brilliantly bold, funny and spicy YA novel about female empowerment and finding your buzz. Perfect for fans of Sex Education and the Barbie film.

full of diverse, sassy characters each with their own issues… brilliant, and thought-provoking – Nicola Bowie, The School Library

The first rule of Buzz Club: do NOT talk about Buzz Club

When Tavi’s boyfriend dumps her, days before her seventeenth birthday, friends Ella and Liss gift her the perfect post-breakup present: a vibrator.

Tavi is mortified, but Ella is inspired. It’s time for the girls to take matters into their own hands and start Buzz Club, an exclusive club for discussing everything from porn to the patriarchy.

Soon the girls are finding their own buzz and figuring out their boundaries, but with Tavi still pining after her ex, Ella shutting out her boyfriend, and Liss’s secret crush, one heavenly climax is coming – especially when one of the girls breaks the club’s number one rule . . .

Reviews

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Irish Independent

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Glamour

Praise for SH!T BAG: 'The best YA novel I've read this year'

Cat Clarke, author of Girlhood

Praise for SH!T BAG:

'Funny, direct ... and romantic'

Guardian

Praise for SH!T BAG:

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Xena Knox

SH!T BAG is based on Xena Knox’s own experiences with acute ulcerative colitis – juggling life-with-an-ostomy while studying and dating. She lives between London and her arable farm in Scotland with her husband; an unruly girl-gang of black devil sheep, Shetland ponies and Thoroughbreds; and a field of 5,000 dreamy peonies.