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The Girl in the Mirror
When Mandy learns her much-loved Grandpa is dying, she returns to the house where she spent so many wonderful summers as a child. But she has long since lost touch with the rest of her family, and Mandy returns as a virtual stranger. As memories come back to her, Mandy begins to remember why events brought a sudden end to her visits.
320 pages, Paperback
First published March 25, 2010
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Cathy Glass
179 books2,229 followersCathy Glass is a bestselling British author, freelance writer and foster carer.
Her work is strongly identified with both the True Life Stories and Inspirational Memoirs genres, and she has also written a parenting guide to bringing up children, Happy Kids, and a novel, The Girl in the Mirror, based on a true story.
Glass has worked as a foster career for more than 20 years, during which time she has fostered more than 50 children. Her fostering memoirs tell the stories of some of the children who came in to her care, many of whom had suffered abuse.
The first title, Damaged, was number 1 in the Sunday Times bestsellers charts in hardback and paperback. Her next three titles, Hidden, Cut and The Saddest Girl in the World, were similarly successful, all reaching the bestseller charts.
The name "Cathy Glass" is a pseudonym for author Lisa Stone.
Her work is strongly identified with both the True Life Stories and Inspirational Memoirs genres, and she has also written a parenting guide to bringing up children, Happy Kids, and a novel, The Girl in the Mirror, based on a true story.
Glass has worked as a foster career for more than 20 years, during which time she has fostered more than 50 children. Her fostering memoirs tell the stories of some of the children who came in to her care, many of whom had suffered abuse.
The first title, Damaged, was number 1 in the Sunday Times bestsellers charts in hardback and paperback. Her next three titles, Hidden, Cut and The Saddest Girl in the World, were similarly successful, all reaching the bestseller charts.
The name "Cathy Glass" is a pseudonym for author Lisa Stone.
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January 16, 2014
I hated this book!! I had to work really hard to finish it. The story was blindingly obvious, the writing was weak, the twists were so poor it was embarrassing, overall a total let down. I love cathy glass books usually but this was dire.
The dialogue was so weak, everyone using the word 'love' ... I would have thought that as a writer she would have thought about the characters and used appropriate language for different age ranges and genders?
one thing which annoyed me greatly was when adam and mandy were texting each other and would put their initial at the end! who does that?!
you know who a text is from before you open it! so why would you put your name or initial at the end.... especially when it is your other half!! texting might have worked like that when it first started out, but not now!
another example of cathy glass' out dated style, which works nice in memoirs but not in a book of supposed suspense!!
many of the pages were like fillers....was it really necessary to give a word by word account of someone getting on and off a train, or a funeral service?
and the actual story line itself was so poor. .... the girl gets ....groped, certainly not raped, or even close in reality, which is never nice, but she totally forgets it??!! more like she forgets it because actually she got away lightly. The traumatic flashbacks she was meant to be getting did not add up with the actual event.
and it happened to 2 of them in the same house yet was never reported even though the guy had his own daughters?
really???
weak weak story, trying to create tension and suspense was a failed attempt, only succeeding in patronising readers and boring me to death!!
whoever allows these books to pass and be published is simply cutting corners and selling on the name 'cathy glass' they are not providing readers with a good book.
stick to memoirs mrs glass, just retell the stories of other people's lives as your writing skills are far too undeveloped (still!!) to write anything else that deserves respect!!
The dialogue was so weak, everyone using the word 'love' ... I would have thought that as a writer she would have thought about the characters and used appropriate language for different age ranges and genders?
one thing which annoyed me greatly was when adam and mandy were texting each other and would put their initial at the end! who does that?!
you know who a text is from before you open it! so why would you put your name or initial at the end.... especially when it is your other half!! texting might have worked like that when it first started out, but not now!
another example of cathy glass' out dated style, which works nice in memoirs but not in a book of supposed suspense!!
many of the pages were like fillers....was it really necessary to give a word by word account of someone getting on and off a train, or a funeral service?
and the actual story line itself was so poor. .... the girl gets ....groped, certainly not raped, or even close in reality, which is never nice, but she totally forgets it??!! more like she forgets it because actually she got away lightly. The traumatic flashbacks she was meant to be getting did not add up with the actual event.
and it happened to 2 of them in the same house yet was never reported even though the guy had his own daughters?
really???
weak weak story, trying to create tension and suspense was a failed attempt, only succeeding in patronising readers and boring me to death!!
whoever allows these books to pass and be published is simply cutting corners and selling on the name 'cathy glass' they are not providing readers with a good book.
stick to memoirs mrs glass, just retell the stories of other people's lives as your writing skills are far too undeveloped (still!!) to write anything else that deserves respect!!
May 29, 2011
This was much different then her other books that I have read. I di however enjoy it. As always love her writing. On the story part of it...This poor girl, seems as though everyone in her life kept her attempted rape a secret. It was so tramatic for her she locked it deep away. Although she did this she still suffered from the effects of it every day. Not wanting anyone to love or touch her. In my oppinion you need help and to deal with these things strait away. Otherwise in infects the rest of your life..It sreads through you like a disease causing to many issues to deal with. Also lets the auser go on to abuse so many more people. This man should have been prosecuted from the first time when it was known to the other adults. She seemed at the end she could finally deal with her pain..Maybe knowing he was NEVER going to hurt another girl. I look forward to reading many more books by this author. Only gave it 4 stars for compaison to her other books I have read.
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October 17, 2021
I do not remember the one iota. It received terrible reviews!
April 11, 2011
Though I've only read one other Cathy Glass book, I found this one to be very different. Her writing style has certainly progressed though it still isn't fantastic. This story was very interesting and intriguing. I found this, despite the subject(s), very easy to read. The story ran smoothly and it was certainly a page turner. I'll be looking forward to reading more books by Glass.
April 27, 2014
Even tho this us good, I prefer cathys other books about her as a foster carer
September 5, 2019
Overall this was a good book. At the same time it was hard to read because of the subject matter. The topics of death and rape in the same story takes its toll on the reader. I pushed through to finish it quickly. The author did a great job of writing this book but it’s really sad that it’s based on a true story. I was happy Mandy got some answers/closure but the pain the entire family suffered was pretty sad. Between her suffering grandfather and her remembering the incident I was glad she got some type of support from her parents and Adam. Great book but a very sad story.
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November 20, 2013
Mandy returned to the house she spent many wonderful summers as a child right after she heard that her grandpa was dying. she remembered going to the John and Evelyn's house and played with their daughter Sarah while she was young. however, the 2 families had been cutoff ever since she was eleven. something had happened back then, something that she couldn't remember. as the ghastly girl in ponytail started appearing, Mandy was determined to face the horrific past.
the story seemed promising and enjoyable the moment i started. however it quickly turned into annoyance as the pages processed. Mandy, who started out a lovely character, became less likeable gradually. despite being hid from the truth by her family, she didn't have a mirror to see that it was exactly the same thing that she was doing to Adam, her lover. she even went as far as confronting the assaulter without the knowledge of anyone, including Adam! despite her desperate plea for Adam to be patient with her, she was just another foolish girl that failed to see the big picture, even the danger of it. as for the plot, it was obvious where the story was heading, with the dying grandfather as a distraction. it was an extremely difficult read where i had to force myself through the pages, skipping lines even pages, just so i can move on to a new book.
my review: here
the story seemed promising and enjoyable the moment i started. however it quickly turned into annoyance as the pages processed. Mandy, who started out a lovely character, became less likeable gradually. despite being hid from the truth by her family, she didn't have a mirror to see that it was exactly the same thing that she was doing to Adam, her lover. she even went as far as confronting the assaulter without the knowledge of anyone, including Adam! despite her desperate plea for Adam to be patient with her, she was just another foolish girl that failed to see the big picture, even the danger of it. as for the plot, it was obvious where the story was heading, with the dying grandfather as a distraction. it was an extremely difficult read where i had to force myself through the pages, skipping lines even pages, just so i can move on to a new book.
my review: here
March 20, 2013
I have just finished this book and am left feeling disappointed in it. I have previously read other books by Cathy Glass and although i didn't think they were that great i felt they were good enough for me to read more. Big mistake!! I doubt i would read any more after reading this one. It was written differently from the others id read and you knew exactly what what about to happen right from the start. Although one of the characters Sarah was supposed to be one of the main characters her character didn't really have much input in the book and the story could have easily been the same if she wasn't included.
I feel like the book was a waste of time and it went on and one for pages and pages without anything happening. Sorry Cathy it just wasn't for me.
I feel like the book was a waste of time and it went on and one for pages and pages without anything happening. Sorry Cathy it just wasn't for me.
January 19, 2016
I like books by Glass. I think she is an amazing person for reaching out and helping so many young people who are struggling. I thought this book was different than many of her other books. Many of her books deal with Glass caring for needed children. This book relives a painful experience of someone who was a victim at a young age and is shutting out the past. When she visits her grandfather which she hasn't done in ten years the memories slowly come back. I think the book would be interesting to some people who have been lived through a similar experience. It is not one of my favorite books by this author. I found her books about her interacting with children and helping children to be more interesting and more inspiring.
August 9, 2016
Badly written, patronising, focusing on really unimportant details through the entire narrative (okay we get it the character puts her mobile in her bag every time she finishes using it!) Feels like the author was trying to write a book through the eyes of a much younger character & tried to "be cool" & "down with the kids" and just failed miserably, the inaccuracies made it more obvious the writer is probably several generations older than her character!
February 13, 2023
I lovvvvve Cathy Glass but hated this book. This is not a foster care memoir that she normally writes. This is more like a fiction book. If you like her true stories, then don't read this book because it will ruin Cathy Glass for you.
February 13, 2023
Un libro veramente brutto. Un errore di scelta che sarebbe stato evitato osservando meglio la bibliografia dell'autrice e le copertine e le sinossi dei suoi altri libri. Storie strappalacrime di abuso e infanzie difficili (nulla da ridire sull'argomento ma sulla modalita in cui vengono raccontate le storie)
In questo caso c'è un trauma nel passato della vetitreenne Amanda ma lei lo ha rimosso e non ne è consapevole. Dieci anni dopo sa solo che è successo qualcosa che l'ha allontanata dalla cugina e che tutta la famiglia non vede più gli zii. In occasione dell'aggravarsi delle condizioni di salute dell'amato nonno, Amanda si offre di aiutare gli zii e la nonna ad occuparsene. La memoria torna, colpi di scena, il passato torna a galla, ovviamente si cerca di sapere tutto anche quello che non ci serve sapere o sappiamo ci farà male, ci si perdona e tutti vissero felici e contenti.
Le tappe sono quelle del feuilleton o della telenovela sudamericana e ferisce perchè le situazioni narrate sono vere ed accadono e sono drammatiche.
I personaggi hanno lo spessore della carta velina e lo stile ed il linguaggio non brillano per vivacità e ricchezza.
Brutto
In questo caso c'è un trauma nel passato della vetitreenne Amanda ma lei lo ha rimosso e non ne è consapevole. Dieci anni dopo sa solo che è successo qualcosa che l'ha allontanata dalla cugina e che tutta la famiglia non vede più gli zii. In occasione dell'aggravarsi delle condizioni di salute dell'amato nonno, Amanda si offre di aiutare gli zii e la nonna ad occuparsene. La memoria torna, colpi di scena, il passato torna a galla, ovviamente si cerca di sapere tutto anche quello che non ci serve sapere o sappiamo ci farà male, ci si perdona e tutti vissero felici e contenti.
Le tappe sono quelle del feuilleton o della telenovela sudamericana e ferisce perchè le situazioni narrate sono vere ed accadono e sono drammatiche.
I personaggi hanno lo spessore della carta velina e lo stile ed il linguaggio non brillano per vivacità e ricchezza.
Brutto
November 12, 2025
I was a little caught off guard that this was a novel by the author instead of all the stories of children she’s cared for in foster care. While I missed that aspect, the novel was engaging and I enjoyed the story,
October 26, 2024
L’histoire et la morale sont corrects. Il se passe pas tannnnt de choses, un peu boring... Le plot twist était évident dès le début du livre.
June 10, 2012
Story Description:
Harpercollins (UK)|April 12, 2010|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-0-729927-0
Story Description:
When Mandy learns her much-loved Grandpa is dying, she is devastated and returns to the house where she spent so many wonderful summers as a child. But the childhood visits ended abruptly and those happy days are now long gone. Having lost touch with the rest of her family, Mandy returns as a virtual stranger to her aunt’s house to nurse her grandfather.
Mandy hardly recognizes the house that she loved so much as a child and it is almost as though her mind has blanked it out. But as certain memories come back to her, Mandy begins to piece together the events that brought a sudden end to her visits that fateful summer. What she discovers is so painful and shocking that she understands why it was buried and never spoke of by the family for all those years.
My Review:
Twenty-three-year-old, Mandy, spent many happy, wonderful summers with her cousin Sarah at her aunt and uncle’s home and becoming close as sisters. They played as toddlers on the swings, had tea parties and as they grew into teenagers their discussions become more serious and age appropriate, each telling the other they had a crush on each other’s fathers which sent them into peals of laughter.
Suddenly at the age of thirteen she was hauled out of her aunt and uncle’s home by her irate father with a threat to the family that if they ever contacted his family again he would have them all arrested. Mandy never saw Sarah again for ten long years and never understood why she’d been suddenly dragged out of her cousin’s home. She had blanked everything out and buried deep within herself, somewhere.
Mandy’s beloved Grandfather is dying and is being looked after in his final days at her aunt and uncle’s home and Mandy decides after ten years or not, she was going there to help look after him in his final days. However, when she arrives she realizes that she doesn’t remember being in the house before after spending so much time there as a youngster. As the days pass she begins to experience flashbacks and feelings of déjà vu and has an unsettling feeling that something terrible has happened but doesn’t know what. No one in the family will tell her anything about what happened so long ago and why she is having these flashbacks and sudden snippets of memory.
As the story continues it comes to a stunning and surprising end that I wasn’t expecting at all which kept me reading faster and faster until I’d completed the entire 308 pages in one sitting! The Girl in the Mirror really packs a punch and Cathy Glass has done a superb job in penning this novel. One of her best, I think and I would highly recommend it to anyone. Way to go Cathy!!
Harpercollins (UK)|April 12, 2010|Trade Paperback|ISBN: 978-0-729927-0
Story Description:
When Mandy learns her much-loved Grandpa is dying, she is devastated and returns to the house where she spent so many wonderful summers as a child. But the childhood visits ended abruptly and those happy days are now long gone. Having lost touch with the rest of her family, Mandy returns as a virtual stranger to her aunt’s house to nurse her grandfather.
Mandy hardly recognizes the house that she loved so much as a child and it is almost as though her mind has blanked it out. But as certain memories come back to her, Mandy begins to piece together the events that brought a sudden end to her visits that fateful summer. What she discovers is so painful and shocking that she understands why it was buried and never spoke of by the family for all those years.
My Review:
Twenty-three-year-old, Mandy, spent many happy, wonderful summers with her cousin Sarah at her aunt and uncle’s home and becoming close as sisters. They played as toddlers on the swings, had tea parties and as they grew into teenagers their discussions become more serious and age appropriate, each telling the other they had a crush on each other’s fathers which sent them into peals of laughter.
Suddenly at the age of thirteen she was hauled out of her aunt and uncle’s home by her irate father with a threat to the family that if they ever contacted his family again he would have them all arrested. Mandy never saw Sarah again for ten long years and never understood why she’d been suddenly dragged out of her cousin’s home. She had blanked everything out and buried deep within herself, somewhere.
Mandy’s beloved Grandfather is dying and is being looked after in his final days at her aunt and uncle’s home and Mandy decides after ten years or not, she was going there to help look after him in his final days. However, when she arrives she realizes that she doesn’t remember being in the house before after spending so much time there as a youngster. As the days pass she begins to experience flashbacks and feelings of déjà vu and has an unsettling feeling that something terrible has happened but doesn’t know what. No one in the family will tell her anything about what happened so long ago and why she is having these flashbacks and sudden snippets of memory.
As the story continues it comes to a stunning and surprising end that I wasn’t expecting at all which kept me reading faster and faster until I’d completed the entire 308 pages in one sitting! The Girl in the Mirror really packs a punch and Cathy Glass has done a superb job in penning this novel. One of her best, I think and I would highly recommend it to anyone. Way to go Cathy!!
February 28, 2016
I was a little bit worried before I started to read this book as rhe reviews I read were not great. Even though this isnt a true memoir like cathy glass normally does I still thought the story was very good and believable. Ok so you could guess something had happened to Mandy before its revealed in the story but I her true life stories you have speculations about what children have gone through. So I thought this story was very true to life and its a topic that cathy glass has experience about so its best type of fictional book she could have written. If she'd written a sci fi book it wouldn't have bee great as she probably has no idea about that genre so I think she was right to base a fictional book on topics shes aware of. It made the story seem very real. I enjoyed the book a lot and found it interesting especially when cathy talks about blocking out emotions etc makes you think about issues that I personally had no idea what it was about and opened my eyes to coping mechanism and I found myself asking myself if I would have dealt with the situation in same way as Mandy's parents. Bearing in mind you need to think how the world qas 10 years ago and not now and I honestly couldnt say whether I would have dealt with it in the same way they woukd have done or not. Really enjoyed the book and would recommend it to others. I think with some cathy glass books some of the stories she tells are so heart breaking, and even though what was told in this story wasn't pleasent it was an easier book to read than some of her work.
May 6, 2015
This isn't the first book I've read of Cathy's, and it's a different style, but just as well written and engaging, Mandy is taking a year off work to paint more as she's an artist. She goes back to the house where she spent many a happy summer with her family members at her aunt Evelyn and uncle John's house. Her grandpa is very ill and although she's accompanied to the house by her dad, she decides to stay and help her family care for him. There's many a sleepless night for her, John and Evelyn, and many details of how her grandfather is cared for by them as well as a nurse who pops in to give her grandpa his morphine injection for pain. Those people who aren't used to what's involved in caring for elderly people or the very ill might find this book a bit too graphic in parts, but I found it informative. A parallel story is that Mandy keeps being told something happened involving her indirectly, and her gran tells her it "wasn't her fault" but she keeps wondering what went on. She also sees the face of a young girl who looks like a very young version of her (about twelve years old- Mandy was thirteen the last time she was at the house.) She was taken from there by her father never to return until this summons upon finding her grandfather was ill. Her confidante in life, as well as her dad, is her boyfriend, Adam. Each character is well portrayed and has a clear personality and mannerisms. The plot is very vivid and this book, like Cathy's others, is a real page-turner! :)
December 6, 2013
This book is about Mandy who used to stay at her Aunt and Uncle's place till she was 13 and than stop going.
10 years later her Granddad is very ill and is dying and she goes back to the house that she used to visit all the time. she has no memories of the place, and than Mandy slowly starts to remember what had happen to her,
Her family had covered up what had happen to her and slowly Mandy finds out what went on in that house and the big cover up.
With granddad being so ill and in pain it brings the family back together after the 10 years of not speaking to each other,
The secrets of the pass do come back and Mandy is very cross about what she found out
This book is very sad and any one that has cared for someone dying until there are gone will know how Mandy feels, I was in tears for most of the book as I had nursed a person 24/7 till he passed away, there is a funny bit with the red lava light but you will find out about that
10 years later her Granddad is very ill and is dying and she goes back to the house that she used to visit all the time. she has no memories of the place, and than Mandy slowly starts to remember what had happen to her,
Her family had covered up what had happen to her and slowly Mandy finds out what went on in that house and the big cover up.
With granddad being so ill and in pain it brings the family back together after the 10 years of not speaking to each other,
The secrets of the pass do come back and Mandy is very cross about what she found out
This book is very sad and any one that has cared for someone dying until there are gone will know how Mandy feels, I was in tears for most of the book as I had nursed a person 24/7 till he passed away, there is a funny bit with the red lava light but you will find out about that
May 26, 2012
Mandy's grandfather lays dying, bringing together different factions of her family who haven't spoken to each other in several years. Mandy has no idea what caused the rift, but as she's back in her aunt and uncle's home for the first time in ten years, she starts experiencing a series of frightening flashbacks. She's desperate to know the truth, but nobody will tell her what happened in that house ten years ago.
It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie, but this is really more of an Oprah book (defenseless girl, bad but non-supernatural situation, well-meaning but misguided parents). I found it compelling and read it in one sitting, but it's not the kind of book I'll remember reading a year from now. It should probably be classified as Young Adult fiction (it was in the adult section of my library).
It sounds like the beginning of a horror movie, but this is really more of an Oprah book (defenseless girl, bad but non-supernatural situation, well-meaning but misguided parents). I found it compelling and read it in one sitting, but it's not the kind of book I'll remember reading a year from now. It should probably be classified as Young Adult fiction (it was in the adult section of my library).
July 31, 2013
Wow! was my gut reaction
How do you review on a subject so hurtful to the heart? You try to go impersonal right? Cathy once again has done an outstanding job as an author. She gets into the heart of the matter without any qualms. This book is about recalled memories. Mandy was abused traumatically as a young adolescent and had buried the memory deep within herself. Her family also hushed the memory. Would talk about it and covered it up very neatly. When Mandy agrees to help nurse her ailing grandfather at the house where the traumatic abuse took place she starts getting flashbacks and doesnt remember what happened and thinks she is going crazy. But as them come more often she is starting to realize that something very bad took place at that home. To find out more, please consider reading this book.
How do you review on a subject so hurtful to the heart? You try to go impersonal right? Cathy once again has done an outstanding job as an author. She gets into the heart of the matter without any qualms. This book is about recalled memories. Mandy was abused traumatically as a young adolescent and had buried the memory deep within herself. Her family also hushed the memory. Would talk about it and covered it up very neatly. When Mandy agrees to help nurse her ailing grandfather at the house where the traumatic abuse took place she starts getting flashbacks and doesnt remember what happened and thinks she is going crazy. But as them come more often she is starting to realize that something very bad took place at that home. To find out more, please consider reading this book.
April 25, 2015
This story revolves around a few short weeks in which Mandy goes to stay at her aunt and uncle's house to help nurse and look after her dying grandfather. It is quickly apparent that the house and her family have secrets that Mandy, it seems, is the only one not to have any knowledge of. Over time with flashbacks and picking at conversations, Mandy finally confronts what she has suppressed in her memory for the last ten years.
This book is very emotional both from the point of view of sexual abuse and nursing someone in the latter stages of cancer. Cathy Glass is a lovely writer, she is very fluid and easy flowing. If you are sensitive to the pain and physical aspects of dying from cancer then I would say give this book a miss - it is very graphic almost to the point of `I really didn't need to know that'.
This book is very emotional both from the point of view of sexual abuse and nursing someone in the latter stages of cancer. Cathy Glass is a lovely writer, she is very fluid and easy flowing. If you are sensitive to the pain and physical aspects of dying from cancer then I would say give this book a miss - it is very graphic almost to the point of `I really didn't need to know that'.
August 7, 2016
A very different style of story from those that Cathy Glass has written before but I loved it. I read this one in two days (which is one of my personal records!) I have only recently started reading 'real life' stories and certainly this story opened my eyes to what is happening all around the world and, in this case, what happened to a poor little girl who goes through a very traumatic situation when she was a child and, until now, the memory of that time had been blocked from her memory. Little did she know that upon hearing that her grandfather is very ill this would open up the flood gates to all those memories her mind was trying to keep hidden. If you have a weak immune system for gory medical illnesses there might be certain parts of this book you might want to give a miss!
May 6, 2015
What a bummer. It was painfully boring with too many unimportant details. With its forty something chapters, I started to get annoyed with its too slow plot from chapter nine. So much for Cathy Glass. She pushed it too far in the part when Mandy found her naked picture in Uncle John's laptop. What a silly coincidence, as if Cathy could not find another way in her writing to make Mandy recovered from her 'amnesia'. The last half of the book I just read it sooo fast merely to find key words then I knew I didn't miss a thing of the story. And another thing: this book damaged my one-full-week reading enthusiasm where I just finished reading six books, started and finished The Girl in the Mirror in one day and dropped altogether my reading mood to wait for its next wake.
December 31, 2017
Cathy Glass on Inglismaal elava kasupere ema pseudonüüm, kes kirjutab tema juurde sattunud lastest. Antud teos on tavapärasest erinev, sest siin jutustab ta lihtsalt ühe 23-aastase neiu loo.
Mandy veetis kuni 13-aastaseks saamiseni suved koos oma täditütre Sarah'ga. Siis aga äkki need külaskäigud lõppesid ja tüdrukud enam ei kohtunud.
Nüüd aga on neidude vanaisa suremas haige ja Mandy pakub end tädile ja onule appi armastatud vanaisa põetama. Tädi majas viibides hakkavad talle kajastuma mälukillud 10-aasta tagustest sündmustest kuni lõpuks tuleb kogu toimunu meelde...
Mulle on Cathy Glassi need teosed rohkem meeldinud, kus ta kirjutab oma igapäeva tööst ja neist lastest, kellega tal tuleb hakkama saada, aga ma mõistan, et ka antud teos on väga vajalik.
Mandy veetis kuni 13-aastaseks saamiseni suved koos oma täditütre Sarah'ga. Siis aga äkki need külaskäigud lõppesid ja tüdrukud enam ei kohtunud.
Nüüd aga on neidude vanaisa suremas haige ja Mandy pakub end tädile ja onule appi armastatud vanaisa põetama. Tädi majas viibides hakkavad talle kajastuma mälukillud 10-aasta tagustest sündmustest kuni lõpuks tuleb kogu toimunu meelde...
Mulle on Cathy Glassi need teosed rohkem meeldinud, kus ta kirjutab oma igapäeva tööst ja neist lastest, kellega tal tuleb hakkama saada, aga ma mõistan, et ka antud teos on väga vajalik.
September 18, 2015
How is this a bestseller? Boring, utterly predictable, and just plain bad writing. Let me count how many times the grandfather is referred to as doing "poorly"! Ugh. I was wholly ready to stop reading around page 200 (it was almost inconceivable that there was more patronizing drivel to tackle!) and just skimmed the remainder. Even if it had been marketed towards a remedial audience, this book would still be an insult to the readers intelligence. The writing was so dumbed down, I felt like the author didn't trust her readers to pick up on things that she was very clearly pointing out. There was no originality, surprises, or redemption in this book.
January 20, 2014
Very poorly written. Predictable plot, characters lack deepness, detailed to the point of boredom. I was expecting a bit more, given the samples I've read from other books by the author. I felt as I was reading a paper for creative writing class, not a professionally published book.
The story lacks originality and there is no really twist. Too much detail where it was not need and only seemed to add pages without a good content. Quite disappointing!
The story lacks originality and there is no really twist. Too much detail where it was not need and only seemed to add pages without a good content. Quite disappointing!
September 3, 2014
It was easy to guess what would happen in the book, so full of surprises it was not... but it is based on a true story and more people should read these... these kinds of things just have to stop! Yes, the book made me angry and anxious, but I wasn't expecting it to be an exhilarating book, but an "educational" one. It is shocking to know how common these things are. And victims should know THEY ARE NOT TO BLAME, THE PEDOPHILES ARE.
September 9, 2014
A true story worth the telling. But OMG where was the editor???? Example. 'She decided to eat some breakfast before leaving for the train. She got out the toaster, carton of juice and butter. When the toast popped up she spread a thin dab of butter. She ate watching out her bedsit window as the clouds rolled in.' ALL that happened here was that she woke, ate a quick breakfast and headed for the train station. Geez
August 11, 2014
This as the first book by Cathy Glass that I've read. It is very descriptive, even with the less pleasant scenes which some people might find difficult to read. It's easy to see that it was inspired by a true story because there is a lot of unpleasantness in real life. I love her style of writing and how she developed the plot which keeps the reader engaged.
May 3, 2015
At times the storytelling seems to get lost in the minutiae of daily life, but overall it's sometimes those very details that allow the reader to be with the girl in the mirror. A good capturing of what it must be like inside the mind of someone who has suffered a trauma but has no memory of it as the memory begins to return. Earth shattering.
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