- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Collins Flamingo (9 Sep 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007141688
- ISBN-13: 978-0007141685
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,475,571 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Werlin has once again excelled in combining a skilfully wrought plot with fully developed characters and rich themes."
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Frances Leventhal’s brother Daniel has committed suicide at the exclusive Pettengill School. But there is more to his death than meets the eye…
16-year-old Frances Leventhal, half Japanese, half Jewish American, can't bear to look at herself in the mirror. She has hidden from herself and everyone around her for years, and now that her brother Daniel has committed suicide by taking a massive heroine overdose, she can't help thinking that it's all her fault. If she hadn't been so caught up in her own insecurities, maybe she would have noticed her brother's pain. It's time to stop hiding – to reach out to Daniel's friends at their private school, where they were both scholarship pupils. Daniel had been deeply involved in Unity Service, the charitable group famed across the country for its work through schools, and Frances is determined to join the group and somehow make amends.
But something's not right about Unity, and soon Frances finds herself in the middle of a puzzle too ominous to ignore. Exactly what are the Unity members trying to conceal? This time, Francis isn't hiding. The memory of her brother is at stake.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
i got this book on holiday and i had it devoured within a day.nancy is a fantastic author who keeps you wondering all the way through the book and when you think you've got it sussed she throws in a big turn at the end. the book follows frances leventhal as she struggles to cope with her brothers death from taking an overdose and her quest to find out what exactly happened to him that made him resort to drugs. its is a gripping mystery thriller that you simply cant put down. i had a friend who is not a big reader, i lent it to her and she had it read within a couple of days and she was borrowing more books by nancy werlin off me immediately after. theres something for everyone in this book and i would recommend it to everyone.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Good, though I liked her other books better.
9 Oct 2001
Format:Hardcover
The best thing about this book, I think, is the characters. They were very well developed. Frances, who is so solemn and depressed. James, her love object, who isn't who he seems. Saskia, the cold and scheming little witch. Andy, retarded but very gentle. Etc. While in general it wasn't as well executed as "Locked Inside" and "The Killer's Cousin" and "Are You Alone" I liked it a lot. I started reading it in a bus station and went kind of in a trance, forgetting the heat and the noise and exhaust. After I was finished I thought about it for a long time. Like, I still can't make up my mind about Saskia; whether what she did was good or bad. Or James for that matter, and what he thought about Frances. All in all: yet another wonderful book from Nancy; I can't wait to read the next one!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
A Good Book
6 Jun 2003
Format:Hardcover
Frances's only friend was her brother, Daniel. But when they started at Pettengill school they started to grow apart, and now, 2 years later, she realizes that she didn't know anything about Daniel. He apparently killed himself with an overdose of heroin, and Frances feels terrible. To try to make herself feel better she wants to join Unity, the charity that gave them scholarships to the school. Daniel was very involved with Unity and was ashamed that Frances didn't want to join. But now when she wants to her brother's girlfriend Saskia, and most of the other members don't want her. She is confused by it and the more she finds out, the more she notices is strange with Unity.
Black Mirrow is a good book that I couldn't stop reading. Frances is an interesting character and I can relate to alot of what she is feeling. The other characters were well portrayed too and it was as much them as the plot of the story that made me want to find out what was going to happen. At the end I was completely suprised. Nancy Werlin is a good writer and all her books are great, but this one really made me think.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Thrilling &Chilling
6 April 2002
Format:Hardcover
Black Mirror is the story of a young girl searching for many things- a sense of family, her true identity and peace with herself.
The book follows a bumpy road of life after Frances's brother Daniel commits suicide. Frances, shy and suffering low self-concept, feels that without her brother, she should make some sort of effort to fit into the school she never really belonged to. Her odd life with divorced parents (her mother studying Buddhism miles away) and mixed heritage leads her to believe she can never fit in anywhere.
The author makes the characters both realistic and unique, creating an environment to completely immerse the reader in.
Frances decides to join Unity, a school charity group. But as the mentally challenged janitor James points out, it's "all fake work." Unity is a front for something else, and Frances and James are the only ones who know. Did her brother Daniel really commit suicide? Was there a note? And why is her art teacher so insistant that she join Unity, anyway? Read this, one of the best for YA in 2001, to find out.
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