It’s no fun being a girl-Arts & Entertainment-Books-Children-TimesOnline
GIRLS NOW SEEM SO much in the ascendant, triumphing over boys in exams and trumpeting girl power, that it’s easy to forget how vulnerable, unhappy and uncertain their common lot still is. I am sick of the flood of pink books I get sent, tittering over dates and discos like an eternal sleepover party. Even when genuinely funny – those by Louise Rennison or Sue Limb, for example – they don’t probe any deeper into what Louisa May Alcott dubbed “girlitude”... ...
So starts Amanda Criag's review of
Dirty Work by Julia Bell
and
Life As We Knew It by Susan Pfeffer
Leave a comment