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Writing Clementine

Writing Clementine 1

by Kate Gordon
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Publication Date: 25/06/2014
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You said we could write anything we wanted. The first thing that came into our minds. Blue fish, red fish, green fish.

Clementine Darcy is floundering. She wants to be the kind of fish who swims to the swish of her own fins - upstream, not simply carried along by the current.

But she is finding the swirling waters of school and home difficult to navigate: her friendship group is splintering, her brother Fergus won't leave his room, her sister's life is not as perfect as Clem thought.and then there's the New Boy, who is dapper and intriguing, but hiding secrets of his own. Clem is desperate for everyone - including herself - to be happy, but she discovers that her idea of helping doesn't always work as well as she imagined.

Can Clem be the girl she wants to be? Will she learn to accept that there are things she can fix and things she cannot? Will she find a way to know the difference?
ISBN:
9781743316634
9781743316634
Category:
General fiction (Children's / Teenage)
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-06-2014
Publisher:
A&U Children's
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
198x128mm
Weight:
0.17kg
Kate Gordon

Kate Gordon grew up in a very booky house, with two librarian parents, in a small town by the sea in Tasmania. After studying performing arts and realising she was a terrible actor, Kate decided to give in to genetics and study to be a librarian herself.

She never stopped writing and, in 2009, with the encouragement of a very nice man called Leigh (who is also her husband), she applied for and won a Varuna fellowship, which led to all sorts of lovely writer things happening. Kate's first book, Three Things About Daisy Blue-a young Adult novel about travel, love, self-acceptance and letting go-was published in the Girlfriend series by Allen and Unwin in 2010.

She's also written Thyla (Random House Australia), Vulpi, the sequel to Thyla (Random House Australia), Writing Clementine (Allen and Unwin) and Twenty- five Memories of Viggo MacDuff (Odyssey Books). In 2018, Kate was shortlisted in the Dorothy Hewett Awards for an Unpublished Manuscript.

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A heart warming book for any person wanting a touching story to read. Written in a journal entry type style you get to know the character of Clementine on a more personal level, which makes it so much easier to slip into the mind of the young girl and understand her better; to believe in her, to accept her. You get to read her most private thoughts, her fears, her discoveries and her innocence.

The young Clementine is an honest and likeable character that will have you cheering for her throughout her journey and (as a mother) want to hold her close and protect her. She's an easy character to identify with through her experiences with misunderstandings with her friends, problems with her family and her own confusions with her identity. At no point did I question her "voice" in the novel. It was easy to believe in Clementine and her ups and downs as we all had similar (if not exact) experiences in our own lives as school children.

It was an honest and refreshing read that had me drawn in from the very first page. I cried. I cheered. I felt rejection and felt acceptance alongside Clementine throughout the story. I loved it. It's a book anyone should read if they need a little "pick me up" or just in need of the sweetest kind of story there is.

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