- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Scholastic; New edition edition (14 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0439993504
- ISBN-13: 978-0439993500
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 11 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 751,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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There's nothing like having your own space, as Rich, the hero of Shacked Up quickly discovers when an unexpected guest invades his newly found refuge.
Pretty soon after that I find myself really needing to leave the flat. I've got this vague intention of going into college, but leaving the flat is the main thing. I'm feeling inadequate and angry both at the same time and I don't know how to deal with it. There's Barb being all wonderful and supportive, and there's Bonny being all wonderful and determined and strong, and they're both thinking wonderful brave new thoughts about the future, and all I can do is feel pissed off someone else is in my flat. That's the way I see it. My flat.
The sequel to Hard Cash, Shacked Up again features the character of Rich, a dreamer who has luckily been saved from drifting too far by his considerable artistic talent. After deciding that he has to leave home, Rich is given a flat to move into by kindly friends Nick and Barb and Rich relaxes into his own space and begins to explore his independence. That is until he's joined by fellow escapee Bonny, trying to make the break from her overbearing mother Tigger.
Rich's situation isn't helped by his infatuation with Portia, the remote, selfish, impossible beauty, who is the epitome of the irresistible but unsuitable object of lust. As a 17-year old guy, Rich knows that he is letting sex cloud his judgment, but so be it. That is until he realises that he has begun to really care about someone else.
Kate Cann has an incredibly readable style which makes the chapters fly by well before you want them to and she populates her novels with fallible characters who are very easy to relate to. Featuring some very realistic and recognisable teenage relationships, the couples, the infatuated and the rejected, Shacked Up is a great novel about finding your own two feet and knowing who to lean on when you have to. --Rachel Ediss
Kate Cann, is the author of the tremendously successful Coll and Art trilogy, Diving In, In the Deep End and Sink or Swim. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Rich has lost out on the design for the big alco-pops deal,but Nick, the advertising boss, is letting him live in the fantastic flat above the office-for free! Plus Nick is employing him to do story-boards, so Rich's artwork is actually making him a living-not bad for someone who's still at college. Of course, that's if Rich can actually be bothered to stay at college. is it really worth all the stupid still-lives with lemons? Unfortunately, Rich's lovely single life in his own flat is about to disappear-Bonny is moving in. Daughter of Nick's mad friend Tigger (says it all, really), she can't stand living with her mum any more. And Nick knows just the place for her. So now Rich is shacked up with some depressed, dizzy girl he's only met about twice in his life. Can things actually get worse? Oh yes.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Top marks,
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This review is from: Shacked Up (Scholastic Point) (Paperback)
i definately agree with all of the other reviewers about this book and it felt weird for me as books i normally read are from a female point of view so we got 2 findsome things about 'the opposite sex' i have really only started and up to the 8th chapter in one nights read! i read hard cash and i was desperate to find the fab shacked up! i 100% recommend it. and you dont nessisarily need to read hard cash coz it explains really in itself. happy reading. Katherine from Peterboroughxx
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One of the best books I have ever read,
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This review is from: Shacked Up (Scholastic Point) (Paperback)
Kate Cann is such a good writer its got everything a teenager would want to read about. Hard Cash the first book in the seris is equally as good. You won't want to put them down - I didn't.
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This review is from: Shacked Up (Paperback)
Shacked Up is the second novel in the trilogy about a teenager named Richard Steele. In the latest edition of the book, Bonnie is "shacked up" with Rich. This causes for tension to form between the two "friends," but their relationship is as good as ever, and Rich feels like he has found someone to talk to like a normal person. However, much to Bonnie's dismay, Rich is still set on his "visual person" attitude and is sleeping with Portia. Rich starts to mature however, and realizes that his relationship with Portia doesn't mean anything.This book is a great, easy read for any teenager. I finished it in just one night and was said that it was over. Richard's character is a great portrayal of how some guys only like someone for their looks, not their personality or brains. Girls and guys alike will not be able to put this book down.
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