Unbecoming
By: Jenny Downham
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781910200643; 9781910200728
Subjects: Family secrets; Families; Teenage girls; Secrets; Family life; Fiction; Patients; Teenage fiction; Mothers and daughters; Alzheimer's disease
Description: Three women - three secrets - one heart-stopping story. Katie, seventeen, in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal. Her mother Caroline, uptight, worn out and about to find the past catching up with her. Katie's grandmother, Mary, back with the family after years of mysterious absence and 'capable of anything', despite suffering from Alzheimers. As Katie cares for an elderly woman who brings daily chaos to her life, she finds herself drawn to her.
Table of contents: title: Three women; title: three secrets; title: one heart-stopping story. Katie, seventeen, in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal. Her mother Caroline, uptight, worn out and about to find the past catching up with her. Katie's grandmother, Mary, back with the family after years of mysterious absence and 'capable of anything', despite suffering from Alzheimers. As Katie cares for an elderly woman who brings daily chaos to her life, she finds herself drawn to her.