![]() People try to hide fears and traumas but these things often come out through anger or bad behaviour.īoth kids are lovely. ![]() Readers of We Come Apart will know exactly how each feels about their situation immediately but the actual details come more slowly and the novel accurately portrays how long it takes to build enough trust to share troubles. ![]() Both Jess and Nicu are facing significant problems in their lives and they guard their secrets from others. I love this as a creative medium generally but here, it really plunges you into a dual first person narrative from the very first page. It's a collaborative effort by two Bookbag favourites, Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan, and told in free verse. The friendship they strike up is born of circumstance yet gradually becomes more, a lot more. Both kids get caught shoplifting and are sent on a rehabilitative course (mostly involving picking up litter). Nicu is a Romanian immigrant to the UK and faces xenophobia in the UK as well as an unwanted arranged marriage when he returns home. Jess has an abusive stepfather who beats up her mother. We Come Apart tells the story of a burgeoning friendship and romance between Jess and Nicu. ![]() ![]() Spanning immigration, xenophobia, arranged marriage, domestic violence, anti-social behaviour and more, this is a star-crossed love story of heart-rending clarity. Summary: Beautiful collaborative novel, told in verse. ![]()
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