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He found an egg at the park so he incubated it and this tortoise hatched out.' Skye's sixteen, and her mum's got yet another new boyfriend. Trouble is, Jason's bad news. Really bad. Now mum's quit her job and they're all moving north to Port Flinders, population nobody. 'That's a Southern Right Whale. They have the largest balls of any animal in the world.' She'd do anything to keep her ten-year-old brother safe. Things she can't even say out loud. And when Jason gets violent, Skye knows she has to take control. She's got to get Ben out and their mum's useless as. The train home to Adelaide leaves first thing each morning and they both need to be on it. Everything else can wait. 'Ladybirds bleed from their knees when they're stressed.' Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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However, the book turned out to overcome my reservations. It’s about two children living with a mother who specialises in failed relationships, and what happens when the latest man turns out to be a real low-life. They are poor, but getting by, and the kids have learned to expect the man-in-her-life to be temporary, but this time they are uprooted from Adelaide and taken to the small coastal town of Port Flinders (which looks rather nice in a desolate kind of way) where things go from bad to worse (except for the dawning teen relationship). There is nothing new about any of this – any teacher or social worker could put faces to this script which is depressingly familiar.
What makes the novel work is the characterisation of Ben, who is ten years old, precociously clever and lovable in an irritating way. Possibly autistic in the way that he fails to read the reactions of others, he chatters incessantly and in excessive detail about things that interest him. He does this with everybody, impacting on all his potential relationships, but at home, he does it partly as a way of entering the consciousness of a parent who would otherwise ignore him because she is so preoccupied with Jase. (Yes, Jason.) Ben’s sister Skye, who’s sixteen, loves him to bits and they are equally protective and supportive of each other, which they need to be because neither of them fit in anywhere.
The complication arises when Skye realises that she needs to get Ben away from Jase (who #understatement doesn’t find Ben lovable at all) but the escape plan involves a train to Adelaide and separation from the dawning teen relationship. I’m not mocking, because I know that teen love seems real, and even more real for somebody who’s only ever really been loved by a kid six years younger than herself. What this separation does is to show in clear contrast that there is no moral equivalence between the teenage witness to violence and the adult one.
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