Description for Sex Education
Hardback. 224pp. Keywords: "By Period, General"
Maddy and Selina wear matching plimsolls and wonder about sex. They're twelve years old and best friends. As they grow older, their friendship becomes more complicated. Selina is beautiful, wild and capricious but she is also intensely jealous of Maddy - jealous of Maddy's straight blond hair, her talent for making clothes, and especially jealous when Maddy gets more attention than her. On leaving school, the two friends move in together. Selina swans from lover to lover, and develops a serious interest in drugs while Maddy runs a clothes stall in Camden Market and falls in love for the first ... Read more
Maddy and Selina wear matching plimsolls and wonder about sex. They're twelve years old and best friends. As they grow older, their friendship becomes more complicated. Selina is beautiful, wild and capricious but she is also intensely jealous of Maddy - jealous of Maddy's straight blond hair, her talent for making clothes, and especially jealous when Maddy gets more attention than her. On leaving school, the two friends move in together. Selina swans from lover to lover, and develops a serious interest in drugs while Maddy runs a clothes stall in Camden Market and falls in love for the first ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Dustjacket
Yes
Dustjacket Condition
Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747554691
SKU
KHS00678006
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2
About Janni Visman
Janni Visman was born in 1960, and studied film at the London College of Printing and mixed media at The Slade School of Fine Art. She is currently living in London and writing her second book.
Reviews for Sex Education
Selina has been Maddy's best friend since childhood. Their closeness is intriguing but over the years it develops into a twisted and complex friendship; Selina is manipulative, bitchy, arrogant and wild, and always insanely jealous of placid Maddy, stealing or destroying whatever Maddy has. The girls leave school, grow into defiant women and share a flat. Their tempestuous friendship results ... Read more