Title: Girl in the Attic
Author: Valerie Mendes
Language: English
Published: 02 February 2012
Publisher: Acorn Independent Publishing
Extension: EPUB
Size: 609 KB
Subjects: Teenage romance, Twilight, Eclipse, new Moon, Sophie McKenzie, Judy Blume,Cathy Cassidy,Grace Dent,Celia Rees,Jenny Downham,Gabrielle Zevin,Mystery, vampire, ghost, haunted,Young Adult, teenage rebellionteenage angst,coming of age,Sam Mendes,Girl,Attic,Teenage love,Friendship, secrets,Fathers, boyfriend, love, teen, memoirs of a teenage amnesiac, Sarah Desse, lock and key, Beverley Naidoo, no turning back,Sophie McKenzie, elsewhere,Jack Canfield,Chicken Soup For The Teenage Soul,Berlie Doherty,dear nobody,Robert Swindells, stone cold,Sarah Dessen, the truth about forever,Clive Gifford, teenage kicks,last chance, berfore I die,Jenny Downham,Joan Lingard, the twelfth day of july,
Categories: Fiction, Mystery
Thirteenyearold Nathan is furious when Mum hauls him off to Cornwall for Christmas and then tells him they are to move there for good. He knows he must accept the fact that his dad has left them to live with another woman, but he is desperate to be back with him in London. He has never been separated from his best friend, Tom, either. Life, it seems to him, has become intolerably unfair.
After a blazing row with his mum, Nathan runs away for the afternoon-only to discover, entirely by chance, a cottage, a garden by the sea, and an enchantingly beautiful girl who seems more miserable than he is himself.
The girl in the attic. Who is she, and what is the family secret that haunts her life?
Nathan suddenly realises that seeing the girl again and finding out about her have become an obsession. He lays a careful plan that enables him to return to the cottage, where he discovers her name-Rosalie-and that her problems put his own in the shade. He longs to help her. One night, alone in the attic, he is welcomed by the ghosts of Rosalie's family, whose frail spirits and soft laughter stay with him in his dreams.
Nathan enlists the help of his grandfather, gradually managing to unearth some of the secrets that dominate Rosalie's life and that of her bullying father. And when it comes to the crunch, it is Nathan himself who succeeds in preventing the disaster that threatens to destroy their lives.
Valerie Mendes' gripping, fastmoving novel explores the strengths of friendship, and the inescapable, binding pull of teenage love.
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