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Losing Face Reprint Edition
Author(s): Annie Try (Author)
- Publisher: Roundfire Books
- Publication Date: 25 May 2012
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 239 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781780991191
- ISBN-13: 1780991193
Book Description
Losing Face takes the form of Word documents, interspersed with emails. It covers the accident and recovery of Cass, who sustains terrible facial injuries in a car crash, including the loss of an eye. Her friend Em supports her throughout and the two very different girls struggle in their own ways to cope as Cass undergoes surgery, eventually returning to a mixed reception in school. Throughout the story, friendship and values are challenged, particularly through Cass’s relationships with her mother and with her boyfriend, Spider. Courage is redefined and the triumphant final chapters celebrate that life is worth living. New beginnings and new relationships are promised.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is a skilfully-constructed novel about friendship and surviving terrible facial injuries … It is an optimistic, even uplifting piece. It has a well-defined shape and trajectory, and this novel succeeds in what it sets out to do: to explain and understand what happens when someone suffers this kind of adversity. The two girls are very well characterised – from early on they are well-defined and their friendship is portrayed in a very realistic way, with all of its highs and lows, and fallings out … It is all reflected as sharply as if it really was being written by teenagers. –(Feedback from MA Creative Writing, Manchester Metropolitan University)
About the Author
Annie Try’s background as a clinical psychologist and writer for the Creative Therapy series has informed her writing of fiction. Annie lives in West Norfolk but is originally from Kent.
