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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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An entertaining and poignant tale about four friends thrown together by fate - Hollyoaks meets The Breakfast Club!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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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.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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!!
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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Can't stop reading
I saw the cover of the book and wasn't overly grabbed but the title intrigued me so i read the first page to see what it was like and was hooked by it immediately. Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2008 by Barmy_Bex
An original and engrossing read
The novel unfolds in a very unusual way - there are four stories which form part of main character Emma's art project, based on the game of Consequences: Boy, Girl, He Said, She... Read more
Published on 11 April 2008 by Chicklish
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