Not Going to Plan brings a fresh approach to the topic of teenage relationships and identity, avoiding cliches, sentimentality or simple answers. Threads of useful and accurate information are woven through an engaging, thought-provoking story.
Lisa Hallgarten - Head of Policy and Public Affairs
Brook Sexual Health and Wellbeing
Not Going to Plan brings a fresh approach to the topic of teenage relationships and identity, avoiding cliches, sentimentality or simple answers. Threads of useful and accurate information are woven through an engaging, thought-provoking story.
Lisa Hallgarten - Head of Policy and Public Affairs
Brook Sexual Health and Wellbeing
Not Going to Plan brings a fresh approach to the topic of teenage relationships and identity, avoiding cliches, sentimentality or simple answers. Threads of useful and accurate information are woven through an engaging, thought-provoking story.
Lisa Hallgarten - Head of Policy and Public Affairs
Brook Sexual Health and Wellbeing
"Told from two perspectives, this poignant, powerful, often hilarious 14+ verse novel asks questions about respect, consent and how to hold it together when the plan falls apart."
The Guardian Children's Books
Round Up of the Best
"Not Going To Plan is an essential read for young adults navigating sexual and platonic relationships and the issues of peer pressure, consent and social conformity. Important taboos are smashed in this novel, whilst comfort is offered within shared experiences and the realisation of others sharing similar struggles."
School Reading List
"As in the very best YA fiction, Fisher explores a wide variety of sensitive topics whilst still crafting a narrative that feels honest, believable and character-driven. It never reads like a PSHE lesson but nonetheless imparts vital messages for young people. Fisher confronts the social taboos around these topics head-on, challenging stigmas that girls are often made to feel around sex. . These are messages that need to be heard by both female and male readers."
Just Imagine
Marnie’s really messed up this time...
Thrown out of her posh boarding school just before GCSEs, the only empty seat in her new class is next to Zed, a nerd with zero tolerance for mistakes. Marnie (great at art and Spanish but definitely not numbers) can’t wait to lose her virginity - whereas Zed (great at maths and physics but definitely not languages) is a loner who can’t stand being touched.
But they have at least one thing in common: they need good grades. And what starts as a trade in tuition, turns into an unlikely friendship... a friendship that’s tested to breaking when Marnie’s tricked into having sex without a condom.
Now she needs Zed’s help to make the hardest decision of her life.
Not Going to Plan is an intensely topical, accessible YA verse novel which wades into the muddy waters of coercion and consent.
