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    Audiobook14 hours

    Unbecoming

    Written by Jenny Downham

    Narrated by Jenny Downham

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    About this audiobook

    Katie's life is falling apart: her best friend thinks she's a freak, her mother, Caroline, controls every aspect of her life, and her estranged grandmother, Mary, appears as if out of nowhere. Mary has dementia and needs lots of care, and when Katie starts putting together Mary's life story, secrets and lies are uncovered: Mary's illegitimate baby, her zest for life and freedom and men; the way she lived her life to the full yet suffered huge sacrifices along the way. As the relationship between Mary and Caroline is explored, Katie begins to understand her own mother's behavior, and from that insight, the terrors about her sexuality, her future, and her younger brother are all put into perspective.

    A vivid and exhilarating celebration of family, identity, life and — ultimately — love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9780545945905
    Unbecoming
    Author

    Jenny Downham

    Jenny Downham trained as an actor and worked in alternative theatre before starting to write. Her first book, Before I Die, is an international bestseller. It won the Branford Boase Award, the Australian Silver Inky Award for best international novel, and was shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Her second novel, You Against Me, won the Waterstones Teen Fiction Prize. Jenny hopes that this story will encourage more girls to make a noise so that their voices can be heard.

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