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Kits is left paralysed and her friend is left suffering amnesia after a hit and run accident. Kit realises the accident has given her new powers. The powers lead her to believe that all is not as it seems and that their lives are still in danger.
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The Girl Who Knew by Sandra Glover is a brilliant combination of tightly plotted thriller, the supernatural and the everyday. Kits has been paralysed in a hit and run accident but her friend Lisa who was with her at the time can remember nothing of how it happened. While Kits finds herself in the peculiar situation of being unable to walk yet able to dream future events and sense her friends' and family's emotions with excruciating clarity, Lisa is frustrated by her amnesia and haunted by her home life, past and present. Glover's style is down to earth, so that the "supernatural" ability of Kits to perhaps predict the future or at least sense others' predicaments, is simultaneously accepted as not out of the ordinary and dismissed as the imaginings of a traumatised accident victim. Lisa's experiences with her mother and stepfather form a background of all-too-real modern life that gradually becomes more sinister, providing the momentum for the thriller-like plot. The Girl Who Knew explores teenage emotions without sacrificing the tension of the story and, combined with Glover's strong characters (from Kits' brothers to Lisa's stepfather), ensure the real and unreal is satisfyingly tackled. Ages 10 and over. --Olivia Dickinson
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- PublisherAndersen Press Ltd
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0862649625
- ISBN 13 9780862649623
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages148
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