Harris she confesses everything: the parties, the drinking, the topless photo of her sent around the entire school, her relationship with Nick, actually falling for Aaron, all the lies and the death. Harris, a death row inmate thousands of miles away in Houston, Texas, convicted of murdering his wife and a neighbor. Not her parents god no! They're too busy arguing about her ailing grandfather to notice anything at all. Late one sleepless night, she decides to confess her sins to someone who might actually understand the burden of her secret. She has fallen in love with one boy, started a physical relationship with another, and lied to them both, the consequences of which are fatal. The protagonist, Zoe (a pseudonym), is a fifteen-year-old girl swimming in guilt. A story about how she fell for two boys, betrayed one of them, and killed the other.ĭo you remember what it was like during those awkward, exciting years between childhood and adulthood? Did you ever want to shine your uniqueness at the world and, at the same time, desperately want to blend into the crowd and become completely invisible? Did you ever curse your parents' stupid rules and then want them to tuck you in at night? In her second Young Adult novel Ketchup Clouds, English author Annabel Pitcher explores this hormone-laden, confusing, thrilling time with remarkable accuracy, and she is brilliant at portraying how innocent curiosity can lead to adult situations all too quickly.
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