![]() Her father teaches medieval literature at Warwick University her mother has a grand and peripatetic job at a cosmetics company. Thirteen-year-old Bluebell ("Blue") keeps both a video and a written diary of her family life. ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. A tender, funny, smart and ultimately heartwarming story. So Blue turns to her diary and her unique way of seeing the world through her camcorder to express herself. Blue thinks and feels very deeply about life but can't really talk to anyone about it, because no one in the Gadsby family wants to address the real problem - that Blue's twin sister, Iris, died a year ago, and they are all just trying to hide their grief in busyness. ![]() The enigmatic Joss moves in next door and Blue thinks she might be falling in love, until he takes out her older sister Flora instead (who, incidentally, is trying to make a statement by dying her hair bright pink but no one takes the blindest bit of notice). Both her parents seem more interested in their careers than the family, leaving Blue and her three siblings as well as their three pet rats (who may or may not be pregnant), in the care of Zoran the au pair. ![]() ![]() Being a combination of conventional diary entries and transcripts of videos shot by the author on the camera she was given for her 13th birthday, and beginning at the end of summer.īluebell Gadsby is 13 but that's the least of her problems. ![]()
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