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Synopsis:

Three teenage girls from very different backgrounds find themselves sharing a hospital ward. When they witness a crime in the park below their window, they bond over trying to solve the crime and each one undergoes a profound change.

A beautiful coming-of-age story about identity, expectation, class, justice, society, fairness, and, above all, kindness.

Review:

Three teenagers, with completely different personalities find that sharing a hospital ward can be difficult then what they originally thought. However after witnessing a crime, their stay in the hospital becomes a lot harder.

Evie is a long distance runner, who faces the pressure of her family of being a successful athlete. Evie does face the negative impact of not being the ideal child that her parents want when she was in a freak road accident that has mangled her legs.

Lucy is an only child with leukaemia, who is the most important person in her father’s life. Lucy is level headed, kind and optimistic.

Jemma was one character that it takes you a while to get used to. Jemma is arrogant, blunt, rude and wouldn’t know if right from wrong if they slapped her in the face. However being a young teenager, there is that tiny excuse that her behaviour should be something to put up with because of her broken homes situation. Being 13 in this book, Jemma’s behaviour is understandable but if she was any older, not sooo muchhh.

I love that the interactions and the chapters are short at the start of the book, really highlighting the awkwardness the teenagers have with their personalities mixing. There is minimal interaction with Jemma as the others are taken back by her bluntness and need to help herself to their belongings. However, as the characters grow to interact with each other and are brought together by the crime they know about, the chapters are longer. I love this style of writing, where chapters aid and add value to the story rather than the writer continuous writing to get that ‘target’ chapter length.

Overall I enjoyed the story and the ending was brilliant and needed to happen. Godwin is an author that I will need to keep an eye on and see what else she has published!

Rating: 4.5/5

Publisher: Hachette

ISBN: 9780734419231