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This Is All

By: Aidan Chambers
Retail Price: $51.95
Booktopia Price $25.95
ISBN: 9780370326849
Format: Hardcover
Published: September 2005
Age Range:  16 +   Years Old

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Booktopia Comments: Aidan Chambers is a fantastic writer. Written for girls who are 16 or older. It is a real coming of age story that goes in to explicit details about relationships, sex and love. Highly recommended for girls who love literature. Not suitable for girls not mature enough to understand adult concepts.

Subtitled 'The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn' this is the story of Cordelia from the time she is 15 until she is 20.

She is pregnant and plans to give this account to her daughter on her 16th birthday so that they can share their youth together.

She chooses the old and famous Japanese book ''The Pillow Book' by Sei Shonagon' as a model in order to include all kinds of things she has already written as well as the episodes and thoughts she has now as she compiles her book.

She tells of her mother (who died when Cordelia was 5) of her father and her aunt Doris (who marry when she is 16), of her love for William Blacklin, the boy with whom she chooses to have her first sex - and with whom she falls deeply in love. S

he writes about Julie Martin her teacher who helps her spiritually, describes her love affair with an older married man and her terrifying sexual experience with an unbalanced young man who is obsessed with her.

The book includes thoughts on being a women, on poetry, music, reading and writing, on being pregnant and finally of her marriage to William.

THIS IS ALL is an anthology, written in six 'books' of Cordelia's adolescent life, by turns funny, poignant, sad, exciting, fascinating ironic and truthful about topics that parents often do not tell their children.

It is a richly entertaining and challenging read.