Kitty, youngest of a large family, on the face of it this about her and a complicated troubled life.
But its so much more than that, deeply emotional and perfectly written I loved this book and it stayed with me for ages.
Vivid and intense…wonderful. The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee.
Score 9/10
Date read December 2005
What would your score for this book be? Please post your comments below.
What a cracking read. Modern day crime culture, told in street language. Violent and fully charged.
I read it as an audiobook and it was perfectly, yes perfectly narrated by Paul Thornley, he and I later went to Chelmsford prison and did a talk to the inmates…I know they enjoyed it.
Go to your local library and ask for the audiobook edition.
Score 9/10
Date read October 2005
What would your score for this book be? Please post your comments below.
It’s easy to see why this, the first of ‘misery memoirs’ sold millions of copies.
A short book about the horrible, shocking and sad events of Dave, an abused Californian kid.
Why any person would do this to another human is beyond me. But absorbing and enlightening.
Score 8/10
Date read August 2005
What would your score for this book be? Please post your comments below.
I gather the author wrote this novel, his first, from stories he made up to tell his kids at bedtime.
He published it and sold the rights to Disney for a cool million, gave up work at the local super market and wrote a sequel.
The story goes that the magpies are killing off all the small bird species in Birddom.
Billed (excuse the pun) as the new Watership Down…nowhere near but fun anyway.
Score 6/10
Date read August 2005
What would your score for this book be? Please post your comments below.