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This book is also available as an ebook (copy and paste this link into your browser): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vintage-ebook/dp/B006N0M18A/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1324296041&sr=8-2 A fresh and funny début novel about freedom, expectations and how, just maybe, you can be what you want to be. Holly and Marilyn are both 16. Holly is dissatisfied with life. She hangs round with her gay best friend Kyle and tries to avoid her mother as much as possible. Meanwhile Marilyn sleeps in rollers and dresses like her mother and does what she is told. Holly fancies the guy who has just moved in opposite, but Marilyn is not sure about sex at all. Holly lives in 2009, Marilyn lives in 1962 – the same house. Just suppose they swapped places... Maxine Linnell trained as a psychotherapist and later gained at distinction in the Nottingham Trent University MA in Creative Writing. She lives in Leicester where she chairs Leicester Writers Club, an organisation of published writers.
This is a sensitively written book which both I and my teenage daughter enjoyed reading. The contrast between Marilyn's life and Holly's really made me think about the differences between life for young people in the 1960s and today. Funny in places, but sad too, I would recommend it for any readers aged 12+
Anne Holloway
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