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The McHugh's marriage is on the rocks. Ciara McHugh is worried that her mum and dad are going to divorce. And she is worried about school and a nasty boy who pesters her. One awful night everything changes.
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Format:Paperback
I ordered this because it was written by Patricia Scanlan and I love all her books, but I didn't realise this was one for people who have below average adult reading skills. It is a short book and can be read in a couple of hours. The story is still good but don't make the mistake of expecting a proper novel!
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Luckily I get all my books from the library and ordered this one. I didn't realise it was aimed at people with very low reading skills, which is fine but for someone that often reads up to 8 books a week (insomnia)it certainly didn't do anything for me
Format:Paperback
Ripples is Patricia Scanlan offering for the Open Door Series - a series of novellas targeting low level literacy in Ireland, a series that she helped to set up. If you pick up this book and expect something remotely interesting - you will be hugely disappointed. Although the book has believable characters and hints of realism, it is purely for a very low reading age; short sentences, short paragraphs, and a very basic narrative makes this book too easy to read.
The main protagonist of the story (if she can be called that) is a young teenage girl named Ciara who, by the end of the story, has just had her family broken up by her Father's infidelity. But the story also, rather briefly, visits the life of her Mother, and her Father's mistress. The story hints that because of her Parent's break-up, Ciara will go off the rails as she was already found to be drunk. Scanlan also alludes to the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1995, where the people of the Irish Republic voted on legalizing divorce. Scanlan was possibly anti-divorce and therefore realized the advantages of keeping a family together; this is highlighted by the rather cheesy, but functional family, the McHughs.
This novel will not exactly send `ripples' through the literary world, but all money raised from the book will go to Irish Guide dogs for the blind.
The main protagonist of the story (if she can be called that) is a young teenage girl named Ciara who, by the end of the story, has just had her family broken up by her Father's infidelity. But the story also, rather briefly, visits the life of her Mother, and her Father's mistress. The story hints that because of her Parent's break-up, Ciara will go off the rails as she was already found to be drunk. Scanlan also alludes to the Fifteenth Amendment of the Constitution Act, 1995, where the people of the Irish Republic voted on legalizing divorce. Scanlan was possibly anti-divorce and therefore realized the advantages of keeping a family together; this is highlighted by the rather cheesy, but functional family, the McHughs.
This novel will not exactly send `ripples' through the literary world, but all money raised from the book will go to Irish Guide dogs for the blind.
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