Blogs in February 2014

Paper Aeroplanes 25th February 2014

I just can’t imagine me without you… It’s the mid-1990s, and fifteen year-old Guernsey schoolgirls, Renée and Flo, are not really meant to be friends. Thoughtful, introspective and studious Flo couldn’t be more different to ambitious, extroverted and sexually...

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The Quietness 17th February 2014

When fifteen-year-old Queenie escapes from the squalid slums of nineteenth-century London, she has no idea about the dangers of the dark world she is about to become embroiled in. Initially thrilled at being taken on as a maid for...

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The Golden Day 17th February 2014

The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes...

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Spud 1st January 1970

Through Spud’s diary, we follow the activities of The Crazy Eight, from night swims to porn magazines and videos, attempts to break the school farting record, and investigations into the school’s resident ghost. Everything they do risks being caught...

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New Moon (Twilight 2) 1st January 1970

I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. ‘Shoot,’ I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very...

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