By the Shore

Galaxy Craze

Caroline read this a few months ago but could still remember it clearly. A book about childhood, reading it is ‘like eating old-fashioned vanilla ice-cream’. The central character, May, is a 12 year old girl. The book focuses on the relationships between May, her mother and brother and her father who is obnoxious - but May still idolizes him.

Jean had also read this and enjoyed it very much. Recommended.
Caroline 21/1/01

Caroline and Jean had both read and enjoyed this memoir of a girl's childhood and wanted a man to read it to see what he thought. Andrew found it a reasonably entertaining read but thought the main character (a 12 year old girl) rather petulant and fairly annoying. The book set the scene of the household well - the girl's mother runs a somewhat chaotic boarding house on the coast with her two children in tow, in order to leave behind the hippie madness of 1960s/1970s London. She's still drawn back to her city ways by her two local friends, taking drugs and leaving the kids behind to go off for frequent wild nights out.
Andrew 25/2/01

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