After Iris
A Young Adult, Fiction, Contemporary book. Bluebells twin sister Iris died three years ago and the family has never been the same....
Being a combination of conventional diary entries and transcripts of videos shot by the author on the camera she was given for her 13th birthday, and beginning at the end of summer.Bluebell Gadsby is 13 but that's the least of her problems. Both her parents seem more interested in their careers than the family, leaving Blue and her three siblings as well as their three pet rats (who may or may not be pregnant), in the care of Zoran the au pair. The enigmatic Joss moves in next door and Blue thinks she might be falling in love, until he takes out her older sister Flora instead (who, incidentally, is trying to make a statement by dying her hair bright pink but no one takes the blindest bit of notice). Blue thinks and feels very deeply about life but can't really talk to anyone about it, because no one in the Gadsby family wants to address the real problem - that Blue's twin sister, Iris, died a year ago, and they are all just trying to hide their grief in busyness...So Blue turns to her diary and her...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780571278213 / 571278213
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Bluebells twin sister Iris died three years ago and the family has never been the same. Flora, the oldest is rebelling, Bluebell has withdrawn behind a camera, Mom works and travels all the time, Dad also travels and is secretive, and the two Babes Twig and Jasmine barely remember. This story explores the family dynamics and especially... Bluebell sees the world through the lens of a camera. Instead of keeping a journal, she records a screenplay of her eccentric family's daily life. Bluebell's family is charming and funny--her young siblings Jasmine and Twig are obsessed with their pet rats, while her older sister Flora dyes her hair and acts out in an obvious plea for... This review also appears on my blog, Read-at-Home Mom.Three years ago this December, Blue's twin sister, Iris, died in an accident, and nothing has been the same since. Blue's parents pack their work schedules with lots of international travel so that they don't have to be home. Flora, Blue's older sister, has developed a flair for...
