Black Heart Blue
'They tried to make me go to my sister's funeral today. In the end I'd had to give in ... I'd been walking in her shadow for sixteen years and I liked its cool darkness. It was a good place to hide.'How would you feel if your twin sister died suddenly? Particularly if she was the beautiful one...
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'They tried to make me go to my sister's funeral today. In the end I'd had to give in ... I'd been walking in her shadow for sixteen years and I liked its cool darkness. It was a good place to hide.'
How would you feel if your twin sister died suddenly? Particularly if she was the beautiful one and you were horribly disfigured.
And how would it feel to be alone now if you and your sister were the only ones to know the truth about what takes place behind closed doors at home?
And what would you do if it was your parents who brought danger and terror into your life? Would you dare reveal how your sister died?
And would you be brave enough to find an escape of your own?
Black Heart Blue is a powerful novel about the domestic horrors that can unfold within a small community - and one girl's quest to stand up for the truth.
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780718158781 (0718158784)
Publish date: May 10th 2012
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Pages no: 274
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Sociology,
Horror,
Psychology,
Abuse
Black Heart Blue is a book with some pretty intense themes. Living in isolation with their parents, the village vicar and religious extremist The Father and the henpecked The Mother, all they have is each other - until Hephzibah convinces The Mother to let them both attend the local college. Hephzib...
I requested this as a review copy and I did receive one, but I actually started this book in the library. I spotted a different cover of it and it took me a moment to work out it was the same book! I immediately sat down for 45 minutes and lost myself in this amazingly beautiful, thought provoking s...
Black Heart Blue follows the lives of two sisters and there are two parts to this book, the first half is split into before and after chapters. Before is told by Hepzibah and the after is told by Rebecca, I really like reading about Hepzibah as it meant you could learn things that her sister didn't ...
Very nice, couldn't connect.
Part One of Black Heart Blue is narrated in the first person alternating between Hephzibah and Rebecca. From Hephzi we learn about their lives leading up to her death and from Rebecca, how life is afterwards. Part Two is narrated by Rebecca and offers the reader a glimmer of sunshine after the dark...
13 years ago
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