August 2009 Debut of the Month.
There is a sinister undertone throughout this book, it is the way that children can be innocent and yet so manipulative at the same time. This is a real page turner, well structured, engaging, intriguing and brilliant. A great new writer we hope to see a lot more of.
| Primary Genre | Family Drama |
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Carol has always resented her family - her mother, endlessly knitting, her father and his obsession with next door's encroaching garden hedge, and her brother, ever silent and scheming.
So when she is invited to meet the vibrant, bohemian family next door in their messy house full of books and paintings and empty of rules, Carol soon begins a secret double life over the much-hated garden hedge. Here Carol voices her greatest fantasy and tells her first major lie...that she is adopted.
But on her 16th birthday Carol receives the shock of her life when her wish comes true. And as, years later, Carol frenetically narrates her story from a psychiatric unit, we realise how it affected her and those around her in the darkest of ways...
Living in Perhaps features in the following genres: Family Drama, Debut Books of the Month, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations, General Fiction
Living in Perhaps is available in Paperback
Living in Perhaps was written by Julia Widdows and published by Transworld Publishers Ltd
Living in Perhaps has 464 pages
£15.29
