# The First Move

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- Book: [The First Move](https://www.bookquiver.com/jenny-ireland/the-first-move) ([The First Move.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jenny-ireland/the-first-move.md))
- Authors: [Jenny Ireland](https://www.bookquiver.com/jenny-ireland)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4159-185-7
- Published: 2023-04-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Juliet believes girls like her - girls with arthritis - don't get their own love stories. She exists at the edges of her friends' social lives, skipping parties to play online chess under a pseudonym with strangers around the world. There, she isn't just 'the girl with crutches'. Ronan is the new kid: good looking, smart, a bad boy plagued by guilt over what happened to his brother Ciaran. Chesslife is his escape; there, he's not just 'the boy with the brother'. Juliet thinks Ronan thinks someone like Ronan could never be interested in someone like her - and she wouldn't want him to be anyway - he always acts like he's cooler than everyone else. Little do they know they've already discovered each other online, and have more in common than they think . . .