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When Kamryn Ryn Matika gets a call from college friend Adele Del Brannon, she reluctantly heads to the hospital where Adele is dying of cancer. The two had been odd couple friends (working-class Ryn is black, posh Adele is white) while attending Leeds University, but their friendship did not... read more
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Kamryn Matika is contacted on her birthday by an old college friend who she'd cut ties with two years earlier. The friend is dying and needs Kamryn to do something for her. This something will change Kamryn's life forever.
Characters edit
- Kamryn: The main character in the book. She works for Angeles, a department store.
- Adele: Kamryn's best friend who has a secret about the paternity of her daughter.
- Nate: Kamryn's ex-fiance
- Tegan: Adele's daughter and adopted daughter of Kamryn. 5 years old although at times seems older.
- Luke: Kamryn's new boss
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“"... in about five minutes the supervisors will come up and get the children and right about then you'll see the parents' shoulders relax and tension fly off their faces, and we'll smile conspiratorially at each other like prisoners let out on day release".”
Camryn
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don’t have many friends because I’m too much, I try too hard, that’s what my last best friend told me. I try too hard, which makes me hard work. But I can’t help it. I don’t know how not to be who I am. I’ve spent so much time with people who don’t like me, I try to avoid upsetting them. I do know a bit about crap lives. Mine’s not as bad as some but it’s certainly not perfect.”
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it all the time, the wrong diagnosis, people defying the doctors’ theories, finding out they had glandular fever instead of…
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I suddenly felt like an accidental mass murderer. “Sorry,”
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First Sentence edit
To be honest, I'd been tired for so long I don't remember, not accurately, when I realised something serious was wrong with me. I put up with it, though. Told myself I needed more rest and that it'd pass. But it didn't.
Table of Contents edit
1. 'mummy?'
2. 'double promise for ever and ever, amen?'
3. 'he doesn't look like monster'
4. 'tell me again, please tell me again'
5. 'i'm not precious, i'm tegan'
6. 'you can call me tiga if you want'
7. 'are you going to be mummy ryn's boyfriend?'
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Series & Lists edit
This is book 57 of 121 in Znanje - Knjiga dostupna svima. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Dorothy Koomson (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Time Warner Books
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 448
Publisher: Time Warner Books
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 448
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.92
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- Dorothy Koomson: Author's website
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