I have a teenage daughter and couldn’t imagine how someone of that age would cope in devastating circumstances where many of us would assume any kind of normal life was over.

She crashed her car driving home after meeting up with a friend, and ended up quadriplegic, paralysed from the neck down. I never intended to write YA, but light bulb moments comes in many forms, and as a former journalist, I was inspired by a young girl called Jenny, who I interviewed over a decade ago for a magazine. Tell me, why did you choose to write for a YA audience? Sherry, thank you so much for agreeing to tell me a little about Stop the World. Can she find the courage to take it? Determined to love again and clear her name, she embarks on a new adventure that will transform her life beyond all expectations. What she doesn’t know is that someone across the globe is about to throw her a lifeline. She becomes a lonely recluse, feeling she’s lost everything including her legs - her boyfriend to her best friend, her father to an affair, her mother to depression - but above all she fears losing her mind. Until one night she has a devastating car crash, ending up paralyzed - and her perfect world collapses.Ĭommitting media suicide and publicly blamed for her own accident, everything around her falls apart. Jody Angel Taylor believes her life is all mapped out: Glamorous, clever and popular, and due to marry her handsome boyfriend, she has it all. She thought her life was over… but it was just beginning Stop the World is available for purchase in e-book and paperback here. As a result I’ve invited Sherry Mayes onto Linda’s Book Bag to tell me a little about her YA novel Stop the World. One genre I really haven’t read enough of late is Young Adult (YA) fiction and I believe I’m missing out on some wonderful books. Netgalley Advocate Netgalley General Data Protection Regulations A Publication Day Extract from The Night She Met the Duke by Sarah Mallory.

An Extract from The Nice Guy and the Devil by Tom Trott.

Stop The World by Sherry Mayes