num_pages: 56
description: 'Loss of Innocence' - Love, Heartbreak and Memories Inspired by experiences of growing up and life as an adult in South East London, 'Loss of Innocence' is a brilliant mix of school days, music, sex, love, gloom and heartbreak. Cool and confidently, Pamela O'Connor retraces her journey through life as she uncovers poems written in her teenage years and fuses them with poetry that reflects her adult life. School playground limericks (punishable with detention for life) that get a mention were understandably exchanged well away from teachers' ears. However, vibrant accounts of her tomboy years and her love life in poems like 'Growing up Blues' and 'To Whom it May Concern' underscore this writer's impeccable quality. O'Connor rounds off the section assigned to her teenage years with a soul searching 'I am who I am'. Tuning into poems kindled by adult affairs, she speaks of her battle with anorexia and expresses her malaise in the poem 'Depression.' She bounces back in a canto she calls 'The Trapped Rabbit' and discovers her inner-self in 'my zone is me, I am my zone. I own my zone.' Loss of Innocence by a writer with an innate poetic licence is a perfect blend of a life story and amazing rhyme that you'll read again and again.
language: English
title: Loss of Innocence
titlecomplete: Loss of Innocence
publisher: Meadow Books