Review: Compelling read for all ages
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 17, 2013
Annie: outsider at school, slightly overweight, prickly, intelligent, compassionate and with an unusual interest in WW1 war poetry. A great mix in a narrator who keeps you sympathetic and hooked from the first to the last pages. Annie is very real, but also rather different as a heroine. I really enjoyed this book. It took me three evenings to read it before sleep, and the last one kept me at it till far too late. A compelling, thought provoking read for all ages with a lingering poignancy that reminds us of the fragility of our own adolescent emotions.