- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: David Fickling Books (6 July 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385607806
- ISBN-13: 978-0385607803
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.7 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,454,655 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This is a story told in two voices - but by the same person. After Kat is involved in a terrible car accident, she wakes up with no idea who she is, and no memory of anything before the crash. Everyone around her is a stranger. She doesn't even recognise her mum, much less her friends from school - Poppy, Jade, and the mysterious Tina. Kat tries to cope with her amnesia, but there are so many mysteries about her life before the accident - and many of them are unsettling and worrying. It's not until she finds Kathy's diary that she understands the terrible secretive things that were going on in her previous life. Told in two voices, this incredible novel explores the damage amnesia can do to a family and friends, and how one girl reconciles her new personality to her old.
About the Author
Lee Weatherly grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. She lives with her husband in Hampshire, England, surrounded by teetering mountains of books and CDz. A writer for children and teenagers, she also runs a small writing consulatancy called Flying Frog, as well as workshop programmes for new writers. www.leeweatherly.com
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Format:Hardcover
This book is beautifully written, with a wonderful theme that really gives food for thought. I don't want to give away the great story yet Lee Weatherly weaves such a great matrix that you will be happy and amazed at how she brings it all together like a beautiful recital. I sobbed my heart out. Lee Weatherly just gets better and better.
Format:Hardcover
i love this book this book was the first one that inspired me to start reading it is like you are watching all of the story it is brilliant
Format:Paperback
Who are you if the person you were has disappeared? KAT GOT YOUR TONGUE is guaranteed to grip anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and wondered who exactly is staring back.
This tale begins with the main character being run over, and then gets more nail-biting. Although the heroine's amnesia is what creates the mystery and drives the plot forward, the story is really about more universal things: friends and family, love and hate, discovery and loss and redemption. It's also about the awful gulf of communication between parents and their kids, how neither seems able to understand the other, and how much better it could be if only we talked.
Don't expect a typical teens-with-problems yarn. It's effortlessly page-turning, yet you may have your brain tied in knots by some pretty deep questions. Even as the twin narratives race head-on towards each other, you are forced to ponder what `me' really means. At the heart of this book lurks a maddening mystery: Is the person we think we are just a story we tell ourselves?
The narrator - who is really two narrators - is great company throughout, even when she's at her most unpleasant. At times she's more of an anti-hero, by no means a `nice person' in the usual sense. The fact that she remains sympathetic even when she (in her own words) `totally loses it' is part of what makes this book so special. Her bad behaviour is shown to come more from sadness and fear than from malice. Kathy and her alter-ego Kat pass the main character test with flying colours: you desperately hope she's going to be all right.
Teenage girls will devour this book. Anyone who isn't one (and I never was) should check it out too. It's great fun, a perfect balance of darkness and humour, and a powerful tale about what it means to be the most extraordinary thing in the world: a person.
This tale begins with the main character being run over, and then gets more nail-biting. Although the heroine's amnesia is what creates the mystery and drives the plot forward, the story is really about more universal things: friends and family, love and hate, discovery and loss and redemption. It's also about the awful gulf of communication between parents and their kids, how neither seems able to understand the other, and how much better it could be if only we talked.
Don't expect a typical teens-with-problems yarn. It's effortlessly page-turning, yet you may have your brain tied in knots by some pretty deep questions. Even as the twin narratives race head-on towards each other, you are forced to ponder what `me' really means. At the heart of this book lurks a maddening mystery: Is the person we think we are just a story we tell ourselves?
The narrator - who is really two narrators - is great company throughout, even when she's at her most unpleasant. At times she's more of an anti-hero, by no means a `nice person' in the usual sense. The fact that she remains sympathetic even when she (in her own words) `totally loses it' is part of what makes this book so special. Her bad behaviour is shown to come more from sadness and fear than from malice. Kathy and her alter-ego Kat pass the main character test with flying colours: you desperately hope she's going to be all right.
Teenage girls will devour this book. Anyone who isn't one (and I never was) should check it out too. It's great fun, a perfect balance of darkness and humour, and a powerful tale about what it means to be the most extraordinary thing in the world: a person.
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Kat is hit by a car. All she remembers is a bang and a circle of staring faces. An ambulance takes her to the hospital where they determine she has amnesia. Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2007 by TeensReadToo
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Lee Weatherly writes realistic fiction superbly. When Kat loses her memory following a road accident she is shattered, but discovering who she was and what she did before running... Read more
Published on 26 Nov 2006 by Reader in Beds
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