Description for Disconnected
Paperback. Catherine isn't sure who she is. The hardworking student? The good daughter? Or someone else? Searching to find out who she is, Catherine discovers many truths about life. Each chapter is addressed to someone in Catherine's life, and reflects how she is towards different people. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: YXJ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile; (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 180. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Catherine isn't sure who she is. The hardworking student? The dutiful daughter? Or someone else entirely? Catherine, Cat, Cath -- which is the real person? A gripping study of teenage pressure and identity. Catherine is a typical A-grade student from a middle class, high-achieving family, who suddenly, on entering the sixth form, loses her way. She stumbles from one situation to another, unable to work and turning to alcohol to take her mind off her problems. As she searches for answers through the varied and offbeat characters she meets, she learns a great many truths about life. Can she ... Read more
Catherine isn't sure who she is. The hardworking student? The dutiful daughter? Or someone else entirely? Catherine, Cat, Cath -- which is the real person? A gripping study of teenage pressure and identity. Catherine is a typical A-grade student from a middle class, high-achieving family, who suddenly, on entering the sixth form, loses her way. She stumbles from one situation to another, unable to work and turning to alcohol to take her mind off her problems. As she searches for answers through the varied and offbeat characters she meets, she learns a great many truths about life. Can she ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007120451
SKU
KTJ0050949
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Sherry Ashworth
Sherry Ashworth is an exciting new voice in teenage writing. She has written eight adult novels and two teenage novels; her most recent, published by The Women's Press this year, IS HE WORTH IT?, has received hot reviews.
Reviews for Disconnected
"Gripping from cover to cover, Disconnected is one of those books you really can't put down. I haven't been so impressed with a novel for quite some time now and Sherry Ashworth has, on the merits of this one novel alone, become one of my favourite authors! It's not often that a book makes me think I must go out ... Read more