Not Just Jemima
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This month's cover features an illustration by Victor Ambrus (see Authorgraph) for Gulliver's Travels, retold by James Riordan. It is published in July by Oxford University Press (0 19 279897 9, £9.95) and we are grateful to OUP for their help in using this picture
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Not Just Jemima
During her first term at secondary school, Tamsin begins to drift away from the tensions of her peer group, finding secret solace in the company of a neighbour's pet goat. When the reason for her defection is disclosed, she's humiliated and her attempted retaliation brings her to the brink of tragedy. The characters and plot of this story emerge convincingly from vivid descriptive writing which evokes both emotional turmoil and details of physical experience with striking sensitivity. A highly recommended portrayal of the magic and the misery of adolescence.
