The cover of this book promises a summery contemporary full of self-discovery and it delivered, but it was so much more than a summer novel. I have a personal challenge to discover a book that makes me cry, and although this didn't I was definitely very close. It is an emotional ride that will leave a metaphorical mark.
'In Search of Us' follows two perspective: Angie and Marilyn. Angie has just discovered a photo of her mum and a man she is convinced is her dad and sets out on a journey to find him and the answers to this section of her life that is extremely blurred. Through doing this, we have her personal growth as she develops her identity, considers her future and her ex-boyfriend, Sam - which is a well written relationship that had me pulling my hair out at points. Then there is Marilyn, who is Angie's mother, and tells her story when she is seventeen and is struggling to cope with her own vicarious mother who is dead set on Marilyn being a model, as well as meeting James.
There wasn't much in it, but I preferred the sections told through Marilyn's perspective, just because I felt more attached to the relationship blooming and the dynamics that were emerging. However, all the characters were well written and superbly realistic.
This books also handles ethnicity in a really sensitive but subtle way and also the feeling of being tiny in a big, big world. Both of which I am still thinking well after reading the final page.
'In Search of Us' follows two perspective: Angie and Marilyn. Angie has just discovered a photo of her mum and a man she is convinced is her dad and sets out on a journey to find him and the answers to this section of her life that is extremely blurred. Through doing this, we have her personal growth as she develops her identity, considers her future and her ex-boyfriend, Sam - which is a well written relationship that had me pulling my hair out at points. Then there is Marilyn, who is Angie's mother, and tells her story when she is seventeen and is struggling to cope with her own vicarious mother who is dead set on Marilyn being a model, as well as meeting James.
There wasn't much in it, but I preferred the sections told through Marilyn's perspective, just because I felt more attached to the relationship blooming and the dynamics that were emerging. However, all the characters were well written and superbly realistic.
This books also handles ethnicity in a really sensitive but subtle way and also the feeling of being tiny in a big, big world. Both of which I am still thinking well after reading the final page.