Letters from the Inside
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From the multi-award winning and bestselling author of Tomorrow, When the War Began
"[An] extraordinarily sensitive and engaging novel" The Guardian
Two teenage girls. An innocent beginning to friendship. Two complete strangers who get to know each other a little better each time a letter is written and answered.
Mandy has a dog with no name, an older sister, a creepy brother, and some boy problems. Tracey has a horse, two dogs and a cat, an older sister and brother, and a great boyfriend. They both have hopes and fears... and secrets.
Dear Tracey
I don't know why I'm answering your ad, to be honest. It's not like I'm into pen pals, but it's a boring Sunday here, everyone's out, and I thought it'd be something different...
Dear Mandy
Thanks for writing. You write so well, much better than me. I put the ad in for a joke, like a dare, and yours was the only good answer...
Fans of Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins and John Flanagan will love John Marsden.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Readers will find themselves quickly absorbed in this chilling epistolary novel. A correspondence between two contemporary Australian girls begins harmlessly enough, when Mandy (``I know what I won't do, and that's tell you my star sign, favourite group, favourite food, all about my sister and brother and the usual junk'') answers a magazine ad for a pen pal, which has been placed by Tracey (``You write so well, much better than me''). As the letters become more intimate, dark truths surface and force both girls to confront personal demons. It soon becomes evident that Mandy's home life is frequently disrupted by violence, and that Tracey is not the pampered, carefree girl she pretends to be. Told entirely through letters, this psychological drama evokes the desperation of two trapped individuals who find a means of escape through their writing. Marsden ( So Much to Tell You ) clearly defines the voices, personalities and immediate conflicts of his characters; even so, the girls' fates remain hauntingly ambiguous. The heart-wrenching conclusion will exert its power long after this book is read. Ages 12-up.
