What a Way to Go by Julia Forster
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release date: 7 January 2016
Rating: ****
Harper Richardson is 12 years old when her Mum invites Kit to live with them.
After the breakdown of her parents marriage, Harper is already feeling different to her friends, in particular her best friend Cassie whose family can afford holidays abroad and private school fees (for Cassie's sister).
Harper's father is struggling in a mouldy cottage in the middle of nowhere, dragging Harper along to Lone Rangers singles club (which she secretly enjoys)
Then Harper meets a BOY and everything changes.
Suddenly the world isn't all about grown ups and their problems, it is very much about teenagers and their problems!
Set against a wonderful backdrop of 80s music and fashion, What a Way to Go is a beautifully written coming of age story and I hope to read more from this author.
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release date: 7 January 2016
Rating: ****
Back cover blurb: 1988. 12-year-old
Harper Richardson's parents are divorced. Her mum got custody of her,
the Mini, and five hundred tins of baked beans. Her dad got a mouldering
cottage in a Midlands backwater village and default membership of the
Lone Rangers single parents' club. Harper got questionable dress sense, a
zest for life, two gerbils, and her Chambers dictionary, and the
responsibility of fixing her parents' broken hearts. Set against a
backdrop of high hairdos and higher interest rates, pop music and
puberty, divorce and death, What a Way to Go is a warm, wise and witty
tale of one girl tackling the business of growing up while those around
her try not to fall apart.
What a Way to Go is a wonderful homage to the 1980s. The decade that fashion most certainly forgot.
Harper Richardson is 12 years old when her Mum invites Kit to live with them.
After the breakdown of her parents marriage, Harper is already feeling different to her friends, in particular her best friend Cassie whose family can afford holidays abroad and private school fees (for Cassie's sister).
Harper's father is struggling in a mouldy cottage in the middle of nowhere, dragging Harper along to Lone Rangers singles club (which she secretly enjoys)
Then Harper meets a BOY and everything changes.
Suddenly the world isn't all about grown ups and their problems, it is very much about teenagers and their problems!
Set against a wonderful backdrop of 80s music and fashion, What a Way to Go is a beautifully written coming of age story and I hope to read more from this author.
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