Monday, November 28, 2011

Life:An Exploded Diagram, Mal Peet

Supposedly a Young Adult book.  A coming of age story, about Clem Ackroyd, a working class grammar school boy living in Norfolk,  who falls in love with the daughter of the local landowner. In parallel we follow his development as an artist/ illustrator, and the story of his parents/ grandparents is there as background.

Alongside this the Cuban missile crisis of 1963 threatens to end the world.

I'm still not entirely convinced about the ending, but I read the book at great speed, and never felt it was talking down to a YA audience.

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