Someone Else's Life
Fans of Jodi Picoult, Caroline B. Cooney, and Lurlene McDaniel--teens and adults alike--will relish this emotional roller coaster ride of a novel. When Rosie's mother, Trudie, dies from Huntington's disease, the girl's pain is intensified by the knowledge that she has a 50 percent chance of...
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Fans of Jodi Picoult, Caroline B. Cooney, and Lurlene McDaniel--teens and adults alike--will relish this emotional roller coaster ride of a novel. When Rosie's mother, Trudie, dies from Huntington's disease, the girl's pain is intensified by the knowledge that she has a 50 percent chance of inheriting the crippling disease herself. But when Rosie tells her mother's best friend that she is going to be tested for the debilitating illness, Sarah, a midwife, reveals that Trudie wasn't her real mother after all. Rosie was swapped at birth with a sickly baby who was destined to die. Devastated, Rosie decides to join her ex-boyfriend on his gap-year travels, leaving England to track down her birth mother in California. But all does not go as planned. In America, Rosie discovers more of her family's long-buried secrets and lies, and she is left with an agonizing decision of her own--one that will be the most heartbreaking and far-reaching of all.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385670760 (0385670761)
Publish date: February 12th 2013
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Drama,
Family,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Death,
Young Adult Contemporary
Včera som strávila v kníhkupectve hodinu a pol kým som si vybrala nejakú knihu. Dúfam, že to bude dobré, ak nie, pôjdem reklamovať :D
OH MY GODOH MY GODOHHHHHH MAAAAAAAAAAAAH GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWDIt's been a while since I've read a contemporary story, and this was exactly what I needed. Honestly, I was sick of all the dystopia and sci-fi and fantasy I've been reading a lot recently, and I ...
2.5 starsThough a fairly enjoyable read, I found Someone Else's Life to be a bit too ambitious. There was a lot going on with an almost soap-opera-like plot, and while the characters were fairly well-developed (I particularly loved Jack and Rosie), they generally lacked that special quality that wou...
3.75 stars - this story was really interesting and emotional but I had so much trouble liking the two characters whose perspectives it follows, so I went with a 3.75 - the story definitely gets a 4 or higher, but the characters is about 3 stars...
*Originally posted on Pages Of Forbidden LoveI’m not sure how to write this review without giving a million spoilers but I am going to try my best. I just I hope I can still give the book justice.Someone Else’s Life starts off after Rosie’s mother has already passed away because of Huntington’s dise...