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A review by katykelly
If You Read This by Kereen Getten
4.0
Letters Left for the Living... nicely done for a young audience.
P.S. I Love You was the same idea, but here it's for the UKS2 audience. Brie's much-loved and eccentric mother's death still has her reeling three years later, and her father has thrown himself into his work and barely speaks to his daughter, never laughs, and she can't help but feel unloved.
On her 12th birthday however, Brie is given three letters written to her by her mother before she died. Letters suggesting adventure, secrets and taking her father along for the ride with her. Will he go?
The pain of losing a parent as well as feeling the one left is also lost is nicely conveyed, within the world of the hurting tween/adolescent.
The family relationships here are warm and realistic, with a particularly quirky grandfather. The story itself moves very quickly to a conclusion, the clue-finding and resolution over in mere pages. That being said, there's a funny sequence at a care home that I can imagine going down well on screen.
Quite a quick read, lots to say about fathers and daughters, and the aftermath of a death.
For ages 9-13.
P.S. I Love You was the same idea, but here it's for the UKS2 audience. Brie's much-loved and eccentric mother's death still has her reeling three years later, and her father has thrown himself into his work and barely speaks to his daughter, never laughs, and she can't help but feel unloved.
On her 12th birthday however, Brie is given three letters written to her by her mother before she died. Letters suggesting adventure, secrets and taking her father along for the ride with her. Will he go?
The pain of losing a parent as well as feeling the one left is also lost is nicely conveyed, within the world of the hurting tween/adolescent.
The family relationships here are warm and realistic, with a particularly quirky grandfather. The story itself moves very quickly to a conclusion, the clue-finding and resolution over in mere pages. That being said, there's a funny sequence at a care home that I can imagine going down well on screen.
Quite a quick read, lots to say about fathers and daughters, and the aftermath of a death.
For ages 9-13.