Cutting Loose
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BfK No. 86 - May 1994
Cover Story
Our cover this month is taken from Jane Hissey's new book, Ruff, which is published by Hutchinson. We're grateful to them for their help in reproducing this illustration.
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All the characters in this sequel to The Charlie Barber Treatment move on, but Charlie's is the pivotal role. She illuminates the common experience: family rifts, distracted and distanced parents, problems of identity, self-image and relationships. Charlie's discoveries are the reader's and there are no easy options for either. Carole Lloyd never patronises and accessibility combines with sharply focused writing to produce a book which should be widely read by Year 9 students and above.
