Review: A difficult drama
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 28, 2013
This is an emotion filled book that makes me very happy that my passage to adulthood was a lot smoother. There is no doubt that the transition from being a child to being a young adult is tricky and there are lots of issues that need to get settled. Not least in this entire melee is the need of the nascent adult to strive for physical and psychological independence from parents to whom there will always be a tie. One massive complication will also be the lack of financial independence that most of us only get around to after we finally end up on a career path some time later.For Perry life is difficult. She is growing up and making the usual mistakes that we all have to make and yet she is also very clearly the victim of a terrorizing mother and a generally miserable home life. It is little wonder that Perry is finding the transition challenging.Roach does a good job of painting the scene and creating an engaging but very disturbing tale. The destructive forces are maneuvered with subtlety and one is almost ensnared in a cocoon of gentleness until the mood changes.