A young girl must come to terms with the impact of traumatic family events on her life, and how she deals with those feelings. The novel explores the fragile nature of the young adult and their desires and hopes in friendship and the future. It leaves us asking ourselves as readers how many of our younger population actually are silent, even when they speak.
I loved it. Couldn't put it down, read it when I had other places to be, other things to be reading. Marina is in every single one of us. All of us wish at times that we would never have to explain ourselves, but our voices betray us. She deals bravely with the horror she has experienced at the hands of divorcing parents and copes admirably with the ignorance of doctors, teachers and mother as she attempts to reconcile her past and her father with her silence and her future. When young men and women can be caught up in a novel based on the diary of one girl who doesn't talk, and they are captivated, surely we have hit on a piece of literature that touches a part in every person, regardless of age?
Read it; you'll remember it, and in the end, you'll be thinking you were in Warrington, at the Lindell's home, and inside the hospital at the end.
I wonder how many students would like to add something to 'I have so much to tell you...'?
