Clover hasn’t had the most conventional upbringing. Raised by a single mother who the kids at school consider to be odd is not easy. Her mother is ideologically opposed to Facebook and her many eccentricities make it hard for Clover to relate to the kids at school. There’s also the small little fact that Clover has …
I’m delighted to invite you all to read my stop on the REV Girl blog tour! Leigh Hutton, the author and real life Rev Girl has kindly taken the time to answer my questions about writing, reading and motorcycle racing. I’ve also shared my review at the end of this post. Rev Girl is …
Two boys who walk alone until they find each other… Dane has a lot of resentment bottled up inside him. There’s him not having a dad, being poor and having a mother who would rather frame winning instant scratchie tickets rather than cash them in and not have him wonder if they will be able …
When Pearl’s mother unexpectedly dies, fifteen year old Pearl blames her little sister. If it wasn’t for the baby, Pearl feels her mother would still be alive. It doesn’t help that baby Rose (who was born two months premature) looks more like a pink rat than the soft, dimpled cheeked baby with golden curls Pearl …
The females in Alyssa Gardner’s family line are cursed. It’s been this way ever since Alyssa’s great-great-great-grandmother Alice Liddell went down the rabbit hole. Alice’s adventures may have inspired Lewis Carroll’s classic novel but it also caused strangeness and mental instability for every female born to Alice’s family line ever since. Alyssa knows about Alice and …
Life without a father has been difficult for Savannah, Courtney and Peyton. Their mother has her own problems and the three sisters barely manage to make ends meet. That is until their father comes back into their lives after being absent for over fifteen years. And whilst they may have wondered about their dad their whole …
This is the third Jennifer E Smith novel I’ve read and each time I’m sort of blown away by how she takes a simple idea and turns it into a great contemporary YA read. In The Geography of You and Me we get to see one version of what if two complete strangers with very …
Fifty-something Lizzie Prain is stuck. Trapped in an unhappy marriage and trapped in the middle of woods. One morning in March she picks up a garden spade and kills her husband, Jacob. After thirty years of being his wife, Lizzie doesn’t feel like she should suffer any further for one moment of insanity (or is …
Cath has always been a package deal with her identical twin sister Wren. But when the two go off to college, Wren has decided she wants this as a chance to start over. To create a new identity for herself which doesn’t involve Cath. Floundering with the forced independence, Cath continues to work on her …
Alice has been battling leukaemia for over a year but she’s getting weaker all the time. She’s sure that her time is coming to an end and as a result enlists her oldest friend, Harvey, to help her complete her unfinished business. But this is a bucket list with a difference. Alice wants to get …