Enid Richemont
My Mother's Daughter
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(Squinx Inc May 5, 2011)
Cealie is sick of being nothing more than her mother's daughter.
She dresses the way her mother wants, wears her hair the way her mother likes... and is the laughing stock of school as a result.
Then, on an impulse, Cealie cuts off her offending hair (it was only a haircut. Cealie had hardly expected to start World War Three). After a blazing row with her mother, she walks out, ending up squatting with Great Auntie Gwennie who lives in a remote village in mid-Wales.
There, posing as a boy, Cealie not only makes some discoveries about her own identity, but also about her mother's past - and its haunting links with the present.
Set partly in London but mostly in rural mid-Wales,this powerful novel explores an extraordinary relationship between a rebellious girl, an idealistic boy, and a senile old woman with her very own angel.
A Young Adult novel about rebellion and the search for identity. It has mild language and mild sexual situations, and it's suitable for ages thirteen and up.
Junior Bookshelf review.
'A discerning account of a girl trying to find her own way to maturity.'
She dresses the way her mother wants, wears her hair the way her mother likes... and is the laughing stock of school as a result.
Then, on an impulse, Cealie cuts off her offending hair (it was only a haircut. Cealie had hardly expected to start World War Three). After a blazing row with her mother, she walks out, ending up squatting with Great Auntie Gwennie who lives in a remote village in mid-Wales.
There, posing as a boy, Cealie not only makes some discoveries about her own identity, but also about her mother's past - and its haunting links with the present.
Set partly in London but mostly in rural mid-Wales,this powerful novel explores an extraordinary relationship between a rebellious girl, an idealistic boy, and a senile old woman with her very own angel.
A Young Adult novel about rebellion and the search for identity. It has mild language and mild sexual situations, and it's suitable for ages thirteen and up.
Junior Bookshelf review.
'A discerning account of a girl trying to find her own way to maturity.'
- Pages
- 176
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