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You Can't Kiss it Better
Book by Hendry, Diana
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 2, 2003
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About the author
Diana Hendry
75 books15 followersDiana Hendry grew up by the sea and has worked as a journalist, English teacher and tutor in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. Her poetry has won a number of awards including first prize in the 1996 Housman Society Competition. From 1997-1998 she was Writer in Residence at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary. She lives in Edinburgh.
She has published more than thirty books for children, including Harvey Angell which won a Whitbread Award in 1991 and You Can't Kiss It Better, set in Edinburgh (2003). She also writes adult short stories, a number of which have been published in anthologies and read on Radio 4. Her collections of poetry for adults, Making Blue (1995) and Borderers (2001) are published by Peterloo, and Twelve Lilts: Psalms & Responses (2003) by Mariscat Press. With Tow Pow, in a series of poetic ‘challenges’ she has published Sparks! (2005, also Mariscat Press). A third full collection, Late love : and other whodunnits, was published in 2008. She has also published a collection of poems for children, No Homework Tomorrow (Glowworm, 2003)
She has published more than thirty books for children, including Harvey Angell which won a Whitbread Award in 1991 and You Can't Kiss It Better, set in Edinburgh (2003). She also writes adult short stories, a number of which have been published in anthologies and read on Radio 4. Her collections of poetry for adults, Making Blue (1995) and Borderers (2001) are published by Peterloo, and Twelve Lilts: Psalms & Responses (2003) by Mariscat Press. With Tow Pow, in a series of poetic ‘challenges’ she has published Sparks! (2005, also Mariscat Press). A third full collection, Late love : and other whodunnits, was published in 2008. She has also published a collection of poems for children, No Homework Tomorrow (Glowworm, 2003)
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January 2, 2013
I read this book long ago but it was one of my favourites. At that time I had read my library out of every book for my age group and wanted to try something new. I could not put the book down.
The book is about an orphaned girl taken in by a foster mother and shares a house with other kids and a dangerous boy around her age.
She feels attracted to the boy and will follow him anywhere.
I quite liked the ending of the book but I would have changed it a bit in my opinion.
I recommend this book to people who like happy endings with people going really astray in the middle.
This book deserves 4 stars.
The book is about an orphaned girl taken in by a foster mother and shares a house with other kids and a dangerous boy around her age.
She feels attracted to the boy and will follow him anywhere.
I quite liked the ending of the book but I would have changed it a bit in my opinion.
I recommend this book to people who like happy endings with people going really astray in the middle.
This book deserves 4 stars.
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