September 2015 Debut of the Month.
Greg is a schizophrenic teenager who also suffers from arachnophobia. He has a lisp, a problem talking and is badly bullied at school, nicknamed ‘Psycho’. He becomes obsessed with a girl, Alice, who has a drunken father and Greg dreams of running away with her. Greg’s English teacher, who has had a traumatic childhood herself, wants to help him and suggests he keeps a private journal.
He uses this journal as if writing to Alice. He was diagnosed aged six when he, in an attempt to move numerous ‘phantom’ spiders from his four-year sister, clawed her until she bled. We learn this in transcripts of interviews with a detective trying to gather facts, so we know something dreadful has happened.
The interviews intersperse the first-person narrative of the journal. It is an atmospheric, chilling read of mental illness. Very sad. ~ Sarah Broadhurst
Finding love - in any of its forms - and nurturing it. Miss Hayes has a new theory. She thinks my condition's caused by some traumatic incident from my past I keep deep-rooted in my mind.
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Finding love - in any of its forms - and nurturing it. Miss Hayes has a new theory.
Alice and the Fly features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Books with reviews by our Reader Review Panel, Debut Books of the Month, Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations, Romance / Relationship Stories
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Alice and the Fly was written by James Rice and published by Hodder Paperback an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Alice and the Fly has 323 pages
