Author(s): ROXBOROUGH, Tania

Activity & puzzle books - children

Out of print, advised 26/2/2007. This book was first published in 1996. As Kelly Marshall approaches her 16th birthday, she grapples with all the usual pressures: friends, school and, especially, sex. In this turmoil, she turns to her late mother's schoolgirl diaries. What she finds there is not the comfort she seeks, but horrific descriptions of sexual abuse by Kelly's grandfather. Unaware of the depth of feeling that her lifelong friend, Simon, has for her, Kelly turns to the sexy, good-looking John Schroeder, whose attitude to study is rather less intense than her own and who is keen to have sex with her. What should she do? And what about Simon? More than ever, she craves for a mother to turn to. Kelly must come to terms with her mother's dark secret, hop- ing that hidden somewhere in the diaries are the answers to her own pressing problems.