The Game of Life
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The illustration on the front of BfK this month is the cover of The Book of the Banshee by Anne Fine (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Hamish Hamilton and we thank them for their help in using Derek Brazell's illustration.
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What may appear at first to be a random sequencing of events disguises a carefully worked-out structure with several complementary threads. First-person narrator, Cairo, struggles with the consequences of her own and other people's actions and tries to make sense of it all: first love, her aunt's unhappiness, her sister's rash engagement and her own sense of guilt over a cousin's accident. More thoughtful than you might expect from the teen-romance packaging.
