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Amazing Grace (Beautiful Lives Book 3) by [Elaine Fraser]

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Seventeen-year-old Grace has a confusing secret. When she tells her best friend, things get complicated.

Exams, uni applications, new friends, enemies, job possibilities and mum issues make Grace’s life messy.

When a photo of Grace is posted on Fifteen Minutes of Frame, her secret goes viral. Bullied and judged, her world becomes chaotic.

Grace is confused. Confused about sexuality. Confused about faith. Confused about life.

Provocative and moving, ‘Amazing Grace’ gives voice to the struggles of a world where sexuality and faith are often at odds. Sometimes all you can do is cry out for amazing grace and love without borders.

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234 pages
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English
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11 October 2016
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13 - 18 years
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01L6ED898
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beautiful Books (11 October 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2099 KB
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Best Sellers Rank: 793,872 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 94 in Christian Relationship Fiction for Young Adults
- 900 in Children's Christian Books
- 1,663 in LGBTQ+ Fiction for Young Adults

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Elaine Fraser, author of Beautiful: beauty tips for the soul is from Perth, Western Australia.

Elaine realised she wanted to be a writer at ten years of age when the words flew off the page during a creative writing lesson.

She studied English and Education at university and went on to spend many years as a high school English teacher.

In 2005, Elaine took the plunge and began writing full-time. Since then, she has published five books and blogs at Elaine Fraser as well as for Kinwomen and several other sites.

Although Elaine is best known for her non-fiction work, she also writes novels. (Perfect Mercy 2012, Love, Justice 2014, and Amazing Grace 2016)

Elaine’s passion is to write contemporary books that are honest, concerned with real lives and real issues, with a spiritual edge.

As well as writing, Elaine is also a speaker and spoke at TEDx UC Davis in San Francisco.

Elaine and photographer husband Steve spend up to three months of each year travelling and commit one month of the year to work with a non-profit organization.

Being part of a creative community is important to Elaine. She belongs to several writing communities in Australia and around the world. Mentoring and assisting new writers is a big part of Elaine’s life.

Elaine has worked with many emerging authors in the last few years, helping them to realise the dream of writing their own books. Her retreats are crafted with the intention of unlocking the words and ideas participants have held in their hearts and minds.

When she’s not travelling the world in search of quirky bookstores or attending writing retreats in exotic locations, she can be found in the Perth hills, sitting in her library, writing, reading, mentoring writers, and hugging her golden retriever.

‘People say I have the dream life. I get to do what I love – write, study, travel, mentor writers and enjoy living in one of the best cities in the world. I agree with Marc Anthony, If you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life.’

You can find out more about Elaine at http://www.elainefraser.co

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Andrea Grigg

Brave and thought-provoking

Reviewed in Australia on 13 October 2016

Grace Bradley is in a pickle. A big one. Confused and uncertain, she’s held onto a personal secret for six years, and she needs to tell someone. But who can she trust?

When she chooses to unload on her best friend, she doesn’t get the response she’d hoped for. Things get even worse when her secret gets out and goes viral, because now she has to face her family, in particular, her mother. They used to be close but Grace is pretty sure her secret isn’t going to help bridge the gap in their relationship. Or will it? And what about all Grace’s questions to do with God? How will she find the answers to those?

Amazing Grace is a thought-provoking and insightful novel about a young girl who is unsure of her sexuality and her faith. Consequently, it tackles the controversial subject of being gay and the ramifications within Christianity. (How can God love me? Will Christians accept me? Will I have any friends?)

One issue the story raises is whether we can see someone as a whole person, rather than be blindsided by their sexual orientation. I hope we can.

There are kids out there who feel exactly the same way as Grace – confused, anxious and fearful – and that is why this book needed to be written. Amazing Grace brilliantly captures the struggle of a young woman trying to work out who she is, what she feels, and whether or not God can love her.

In reading the back matter, it’s clear Elaine has a compassionate heart. She hasn’t written Amazing Grace lightly, or just to stir things up, but has come from a place of love. I’m hoping mothers, aunts, sisters and cousins will be brave enough to give this book to their struggling relative and be there for them when they’re ready to talk.

I loved how this book made me think, put me in Grace’s shoes, and caused me to pray. I hope it does the same for many. Elaine Fraser, I applaud you.

Thank you to the author for a free copy. It was my choice to review it.

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Merry Bell

A sensitive and difficult theme

Reviewed in Australia on 22 November 2016

Elaine Fraser has just released book three in her Beautiful Lives series. All three books are well written, with engaging characters and topical themes for teenagers today. Elaine handles the thematic content well.
In book three, Elaine has bravely decided to tackle the theme of 'coming out' as gay. Her character, Grace, is unsure of her sexuality and begins to investigate whether she may be a lesbian. The theme is sensitive, but as Elaine is known as a Christian writer, it is also controversial. Elaine doesn't shy away from the conflict that comes when conservative Christianity and sexuality is discussed in the one sentence. The ideas are not easy to fix. On the one hand, Elaine presents an authentic internal conflict of a teen coming to terms with who she really is, and she also gives the reader an outside glimpse of the mother (a conservative Christian) and how she handles it. No easy outcomes here. A conservative reader may feel that Elaine has 'normalised' gay relationships with her two characters Keira and Britt, and may therefore decide not to engage with this story, but I think that would be a shame, as there is something for us all to learn here, conservative and liberal alike - Grace, and kids like her - are real people, and their sexuality is only a small part of who they are, yet they can sometimes be judged and persecuted, and the rest of who they are suddenly becomes irrelevant. I'd recommend you read it anyway.

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