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Another Life Altogether (2010)

by Elaine Beale(Favorite Author)

3.44 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0385530048 (ISBN13: 9780385530040)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Spiegel & Grau

review 1: An excellent first novel about a thirteen-year-old British girl whose mother is mentally ill. Jesse Bennett has the misfortune to be figuring out she's queer right around the time her mother is becoming ever more floridly bipolar and suicidal. This doesn't sound like a subject for laughter, but the wry, slightly goofy, very British humor in the book had me laughing aloud with regularity. A good read for adults and for intelligent teens like the book's protagonist.
review 2: This was an interesting read. It started off slow and I wasn't sure that I would bother to finish it, but after about 50 pages the pace picked up and a plot appeared. Within a short while, I again wasn't sure that I would complete it, because there was the threat of impending violence again... morest some GLBT characters and there's enough of that in real life for me not to wish to read about it in a novel. However, the threats didn't materialize and I finished the book. In the end, it's essentially a compassionate mother-daughter story that brings into question when to let go of that which you can't change. less

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