The Lemon Golf Diary (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Have you ever felt as useless as a lemon in a game of Crazy Golf?
(Finalist in The Heritage Future Great Story Contest and based on true events.)

Rory may be ADHD or ASD or something else entirely - but she feels equally hopeless at school and at life. Everything she does is wrong and everything her confused mother does to help is wrong. The only thing everyone agrees on is that she should just Try Harder. She even starts to keep a halting diary to make sense of her lonely world, but can't seem to write more than a sentence at a time.

But Rory's neurodivergence fuels a powerful imagination which she discovers when a new girl arrives at school. Paige is smart but bored. When she complains there is no magic in their dull suburban lives, Rory knows she finally has something to offer. She begins to spin fantastic tales, pretending to conjure up their very own Spirit Guide. The trouble is, Paige wants real magic. Magic that will change their lives. Magic with Wishes.

Delighted that she can actually fool her new friend, Rory manages to keep the game going. But when Paige's wishes turn stranger and darker, Rory realizes she has started something she can't control. She just wanted to be good at something. Now they are both hurtling toward disaster.

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