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This is a novel whose author, Rebbecca Ray, was 16 at the time that she wrote it. It is a disturbing look into the life of a 14 year-old British girl who is struggling desperately to feel anything at all. At the beginning she seems to be anyone's child. But as the story progresses, we see that her problems with her family, friends, and the choices she makes about boys and sex are average. Here's an example:
"I was about thirteen when I started letting the boys feel me up. There was a whole bunch of them, four or five, and at lunchtime we'd all meet up; smoking a spliff out on the pitch if it was sunny, round their table in the library if it wasn't. We'd all be sitting around, eating our lunches, and Joel or Craig or some other boy I didn't really like would start putting his hand up my shirt. Or my skirt, I had a really short skirt and fucking awful legs but I'd roll the waistband up on it to make it shorter anyway."
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