Waterstones Quick Reads: Hello Mum
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Price: £1.00
Brand: Waterstones
Description: A fresh and striking story of young lives ripped apart by gang violence and peer pressure. It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street. The boy's mother wonders how this could have happened to her son. She goes in search of answers to her questions but when the truth lies so close to home, is it really what she wants to hear?. Waterstones Quick Reads: Hello Mum - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780141044385
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780141044385
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Author: emma04
Rating: 5
Review: Couldn't put it down. Thought provoking and insightful. Can't recommend this book enough.
Author: Hil22
Rating: 3
Review: People seem to like the way this book is written in a supposedly accessible, 'youth-speak' way, but that's what I hated about it. If it's aimed at people like the main character, perhaps as some sort of cautionary tale, then it shouldn't need to explain the meaning of the slang he uses. The way this is done, with the boy writing a letter to his mum who's, like, so uncool she doesn't know how to speak proper like innit, ya get me, LOL... didn't work very well, because I don't think you'd write like that to your mum, and if she'd been living with him all his life she'd have picked up on bits of slang and know what he meant, unless she was an absent, uncaring mum, which she wasn't. So, I found it a bit patronising, like it was actually just written by someone trying to sound 'down with the kids', like a groovy, 'wacky' school teacher. Other than that, the story was ok.
