Jack and Nate find themselves dumped as their respective exes start up a new relationship together and start posting pics showing the world how fabulous their new life together is. Jack and Nate decide to make it look like they're having an even better time. But faking the best summer ever is harder than it looks!



Faking the best summer ever is a lot harder than it looks... At the start of summer, Jack and Nate find themselves dumped as their respective exes, Dylan and Tariq, start up a new relationship together. Not only that, their exes start posting pics on social media, showing the whole world how fabulous their new life together is! Jack and Nate are reeling. Not to be outdone, they decide to create their own 'highlights reel' and show their exes that they're having an even better time. But between the depressing motorway service station motels, damp campsites, and an ultimate showdown with the exes, something epic really is happening: Jack and Nate are learning to get over their heartache and open themselves up to new possibilities for love. A hilarious story of heartbreaks and hijinks from award-winning author Simon James Green. One of the UK's leading writers of LGBTQ+ teen fiction, Simon James Green is the author of Gay Club!, Alex in Wonderland and the Noah Can't Even books. A perfect next read for fans of Heartstoppers and Adam Silvera Simon's book You're The One That I Want won the Bristol Teen Book Award 2022 & was shortlisted for the YA Book Award in association with Edinburgh International Book Festival 2022 Heartbreak Boys was selected by Attitude magazine and Gay's the Word Bookshop as one of the best LGBTQ+ novels of the year and was featured in iPaper's Essential Summer Reads