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'Ever read Lord of the Flies?' said Rohini.
'Of course. Set book, year ten. And?'
'Same situation. Different gender.'
A plane crashes on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. On it are thirty English girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen, winners of a competition organised by a company selling feminine hygiene products. Each has had to write an essay on her aspirations, subsequently posted on her own website. Twenty-one of the girls survive and, when no rescue comes, are compelled to devise their own rules in order to stay alive.
A brilliant reworking of Golding's classic novel, in Be Nice Anabel Donald takes us into the minds of her teenage characters as they play out a struggle that is as old as the human race and as new as the Internet.
'Of course. Set book, year ten. And?'
'Same situation. Different gender.'
A plane crashes on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. On it are thirty English girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen, winners of a competition organised by a company selling feminine hygiene products. Each has had to write an essay on her aspirations, subsequently posted on her own website. Twenty-one of the girls survive and, when no rescue comes, are compelled to devise their own rules in order to stay alive.
A brilliant reworking of Golding's classic novel, in Be Nice Anabel Donald takes us into the minds of her teenage characters as they play out a struggle that is as old as the human race and as new as the Internet.
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"Be Nice is a novel brimming with accusations and ideas. Has the power to linger long after the story is finished" (Observer)
"A frightening depiction of the female teenage mind... The ending carries a psychologically acute twist and is as shocking as anything in Golding's Lord of the Flies
" (Daily Express)
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"A frightening depiction of the female teenage mind... The ending carries a psychologically acute twist and is as shocking as anything in Golding's Lord of the Flies
" (Daily Express)
Twenty-one teenage girls stranded on a desert island - a brilliant reworking of Lord of the Flies.
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- PublisherJonathan Cape
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0224063081
- ISBN 13 9780224063081
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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