- Fiction, Unmarried mothers, Pregnancy, Mothers and sons
The moving and very real story of two teenagers and an unplanned pregnancy. It is told from two viewpoints - that of Helen as she writes her thoughts in a series of letters to the unborn baby, the Dear Nobody of the title, and of Chris as he reads the letters and relives events as Helen is in labour.
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Earnest, grave, spare and intimate.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Berlie Doherty
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 185
- Publisher
- dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, Gomer Press, Collins Educational
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Spanish, French, English
- ISBN
- 9783125781306
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“MAYBE WE ALL WANT to burn off across the horizon, into space, perhaps, to take off into some unknown territory and meet ourselves out there.”
Berlie Doherty is an English novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter. She is best known for children's books, for which she has twice won the Carnegie Medal. She has also written novels for adults, plays for theatre and radio, television series and libretti for children's opera.
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