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May 1, 2003/in Fiction 14+ Secondary/Adult /by Angie Hill
BfK Rating:
BfK 140 May 2003
Reviewer: Nick Attwood
ISBN: 978-0862649852
Price: £9.99
Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd
Genre: Fiction
Age Range: 14+ Secondary/Adult
Length: 144pp
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Can You Keep a Secret?

Author: Sandra Glover

When tearaway Tracy leaves school peremptorily, Zoë, a fellow ‘three day weekend’ taker and ‘behind the bikesheds’ type, is in need of a new friend. Quickly she befriends new girl Karen. Goodie-two-shoes Karen and gobby Zoë are unlikely GCSE soulmates. But, in shouldering Zoë’s secret, Karen is forced to reveal her own secret, a secret which links the circumstances of the present with her own calamitous past.

Can You Keep a Secret? The front cover can’t. Revelation revealed, the first half of the book serves to jigsaw together the full facts of Zoë’s pregnancy and baby-dumping, while the writer skilfully sustains the reader’s interest by centring the second half of the novel on THAT SECRET of Karen’s own problematic past. A riveting read which sensitively depicts teenage pregnancy, prevarication and the binding ties of the past on the present.

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