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Accidental Friends [Paperback]

Helena Pielichaty (Author)
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Publication Date: 7 Feb 2008
At any other time they would never have met. Bright, arty Emma with the steady boyfriend and a new baby. James, the public schoolboy who won a bet but flunked all his exams in the process. Leon, sent to college instead of prison who's angry at the world and determined on revenge. And bolshy Grace, who acts like she doesn't care, but underneath it all has a very surprising secret to spring on the others.

Thrust together on the first day of term at college the four of them form an unlikely and uneasy alliance that eventually leads to friendship, and even love.

But if it really was fate that brought them together, it is a completely different, life-threatening, accident that will test their friendship and loyalty to the extreme.

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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford (7 Feb 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0192755102
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192755100
  • Product Dimensions: 13.2 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 654,366 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I'll look forward to seeing more of Helena Pielichaty - she's brilliant! (Judge, Lancashire County Library, Children's Book of the year 2001 )
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5.0 out of 5 stars And the consequence was ... 14 Mar 2008
By idlewriter
Format:Paperback
This novel is based on such a clever idea that I bet other authors will wish they'd thought of it first. In fact THREE clever ideas. One is to have the four characters meeting by chance in a lift, on their first day at sixth-form characters - characters who wouldn't normally mix. The second is to shape events around the game of consequence: boy's name, girl's name, where they met, etc. And the third is to use Emma's art exhibition to structure the telling, as she asks the Polish cleaner, Kazia, for a response to her exhibits. This device enables Pielichaty to move forward swiftly from one significant event to the next, without awkward "time passing" scenes. The teenagers and their world are very convincingly up to the minute, and although their friendship falters at times or threatens to become unbalanced when two of them become an item, they're drawn into each other's traumas and dilemmas. Probably each reader will have his or her own favourite character: artistic teenage mother Emma; posh, unhappy James, rebellious but dependent Leon, or the resourceful, self-conscious Grace. This pacy, entertaining, moving story is certain to have wide appeal for teenagers male and female. So: the consequence is ... a terrific read!
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5.0 out of 5 stars A 'must buy' 12 May 2008
By Mel Robinson
Format:Paperback
The author engages the reader from the first page. The idea of constructing a story around the timeless playground classic game of consequences is simply superb. The book tells the story of four different but endearing characters who come together by chance - their story is told via an art project one of them has produced at college and rehearses her presentation to the Polish cleaner, Kazia - who also evolves with the storyline. Each character is very different but the way the author threads them together is seamless and absorbing.
Some real and difficult issues are addressed in an unforced, realistic and humourous way.
I couldn't put this book down and was really disappointed to have finished it - i wanted it to go on and on ... I see a film or TV series in the making!!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An unexpected story. 14 Aug 2008
By Book -devourer
Format:Paperback
There is nothing accidental about the clever structure of this novel in which the stories of four very different characters are revealed through an art project based on the game of consequences.In less sensitive hands this could have been nothing more than a tricksy idea, but Pielichaty has instead produced a well paced, poignant tale with credible, distinctive characters the reader really cares about and just the right amount of leavening humour. A great read.
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