The Last New Start

The Last New Start is a story being written by Angel for NaNoWrMo 2021.

It is one half of a story, together with My Cousin's Keeper, which is the same story from the opposite perspective.

Characters

• Tess Naylor (POV character)
• Spike Torrance (Tess's boyfriend)
• Gabby Noel (Tess's cousin, caretaker, and bully)
• Ffrances (Gabby's gf; the hypnotist)

Minor Characters

• Tess's parents - Moved to San Lorenzo after chapter 3.
• Aunt Mary - the only one of Tess's mum's family to stay in touch after some big argument years ago
• Chloe, Liz, Kim. Tess's friends. Her parents think of Chloe and Kim as her best friends
  • Liz's brother Delain has a half dozen exercise machines in the garage, because he doesn't have the motivation to work out but always thinks that a new type of machine will somehow make him fit
• Mr Draper - one of Mr Naylor's workmates. They went on a two-week ski trip together last spring, and trusted Tess to look after herself at home

Locations

• San Lorenzo - a Mediterranean location that has a lot of tourists (not clear if SL is an island, a country, or a city)
  • Orange Quarter - part of the city that's kind of upper class. Modern art installations on every street corner. Where the Naylors live
  • Marble Quarter - a "Golden parachute drop zone", where American billionaires go to retire. Responsible for causing some economic problems, and pushing the cost of living in San Lorenzo way up

• Raybridge High - Tess's school
  • There's a little block of cheap apartments opposite
• Palmerston - a trashy new-build estate 'north of Pine Ridge', right on the edge of the Raybridge school district. Gabby lives here
  • From Gabby's house to the nearest school bus stop is fifteen minutes walk
  • There's also a "Palmerston, Oregon", setting of the TV series Live From Palmerston. No details about the show given yet; or whether Palmerston, Oregon really exists.

References

• The initial idea in my 'ideas book' on Wattpad
• The Last New Start on Wattpad