Dante is a bright young
lad anxiously waiting for his A Level results.
He knows what he needs to get into his chosen university, but will he do
it? Did he do enough work? It’s a big ask, but he thinks he should have
done it. Then he’ll be able to leave the
home he shares with his annoying younger brother Adam and his virtually
estranged widower dad. It’s all he
wants.
But, instead of his results, a girl arrives on his doorstep. Someone he hasn’t seen since he split up with her a while ago. They were only sixteen at the time and it was never serious. They had one fumbling attempt at sex when they were both very drunk at party. Now she’s on his doorstep, holding a baby. And the baby is his.
This brilliant opening
hooks you right in and keeps you there as Melanie asks him to look after the
baby while she goes to the shops. The
terror of those fifteen minutes alone with a baby, who may as well be an alien,
are brilliantly portrayed. As is the
shock when Melanie calls to say she’s not coming back and it’s his turn to look
after his daughter.
Dante’s world is
completely torn apart by the arrival of baby Emma. The portrayal of the realisation of how hard
it is to look after a baby is brilliant, plus the realisation of how much
Dante’s dad must have done for him when he was too small to remember. Then there are all the issues of him being
left with a baby he has no feelings for, apart from terror. And he’s supposed to be going out with his
friends to celebrate results . . .
Meanwhile, his younger
brother Adam has his own story to tell, his own problems and own terrible
disaster. It’s a funny, sad, uplifting
book about the importance of family and I’d recommend it to all teens as well
as their parents!
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2 comments:
I'd really enjoyed this book too, especialy the way that his values gradually change as well as the role of Dante's own father in helping him to come to terms with it too.
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