Fifteen-year-old Zoe has a secret – a dark and terrible secret that she can’t confess to anyone she knows. But then one day she hears of a criminal, Stuart Harris, locked up on death row in Texas. Like Zoe, Stuart is no stranger to secrets. Or lies. Or murder.
Full of heartache yet humour, Zoe tells her story in the only way she can – in letters to the man in prison in America. Armed with a pen, Zoe takes a deep breath, eats a jam sandwich, and begins her tale of love and betrayal.
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Sexual Content - 3/5
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Violence - 1/5
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Language - 2/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 3/5
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Summary
It is a story about a young teenage girl with a secret. She decides to write to a prisoner on death row in the States from England. She is struggling with day to day life as no one knows what she has done and she writes to the prison the sequence of events that led up to the event. The book follows the teenager life and is written from her
perspective. The book talks about her relationships and how mundane and complicated normal life can be. The book will lead the reader to wonder what the 'crime' is, and at different pints speculate as to what could have happened. It is an easy read aimed at the teenage audience, overall a good read but not necessarily a 'good moral example'...
Violence: There is little violence I the book, it is described in the event which the young girl is writing about
Language: There wasn't much crude language if any, I don't remember it but I feel like there could have been some....
Sexual scenes: occur between teenagers but there are not graphically described.
Drinking: Teenagers at a party are drinking alcohol and one teenager drinks excessively at different points in the book
Review by caipie