Rebecca Clifford

My Fifth Season Rebecca Clifford

It is autumn of 1985 and fifteen year-old Jessica Thurwell, a buddingmusician, Beatles fanatic, and hopeless romantic, is starting her new lifeat the small, prestigious Fieldings Academy. Away from the glare of hermother's soap star celebrity and the sprawling confusion of her suburbanhigh school, Jess hopes to shed her mousy, friendless persona. Whenthe charismatic and seemingly popular senior, Perry Wagner, takes Jessunder her wing and makes her a part of her tight-knit clique of friends, Jess can't believe her luck. But soon she discovers the sacrifices and hard work involved in stayingin the girls' good graces when she is thrust into a world where not onlyher new friends could care less about her music and passion for theBeatles, but also where drugs, manipulation, and back stabbing are parfor the course and more complex than any plot on her mother's soap. Things aren't made any easier when Jess finds she has developed acrush on Perry's hunky and overly flirtatious boyfriend Marcus. As shetries to escape the clutches of the clique, she realizes it's going to be alot tougher than she thought. And then a tragic event shockingly unfoldslate in the year, forcing Jess to come face to face with the reality of theworld she wanted so much to be a part of.