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And is friends with 3 other girls also named Amanda The four Mandies are pretty notorious in school and a constant source of pain to their teachers who have been dying to find a reason to expel at least one of them to make an example. The following signatures were invalid kali Baker s mother left her with her father when she was but 5 years old and she grew up with him and his new wife Mr Baker is utterly conventional and incapable of looking at his daughter without seeing his first wife He is so caught up in the wrongs that were done to him that he deciphers every action of his daughter as a deliberate attempt to hurt him At times I felt sad for him.

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He would have laughed it off like he did every time the teachers told him that I talked too much in every single school and every single parent teacher meet he ever went to He was compensated for that 13 years later when his son started school and every teacher in every school told him he was too quiet. The following signatures were invalid kali The actual plot summarized in the blurb only occurs towards the very end The first three quarters of the story is spent in describing the various characters in the book right from the students to the teachers It isn t boring or tedious but one does wonder when the terrible event mentioned in the blurb will occur. The following saturday It is a sweet book.

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A subscription to Spare Rib Baker struggles to fit in at school but somehow in spite of her best efforts she always seems to be in trouble and on the verge of expulsion He father despairs of her and spends all his time sending for brochures for schools which might turn her into the sort of daughter he wants her to be. The following season 4 I enjoyed reading this book and thought the characters were believable and likeable I thought the way the friendship between the four girls waxed and waned was convincing I also liked Pam Spam Baker s stepmother with her sherry bottle under the sink which she had no problems sharing with Baker herself at times This book is well written and presents an interesting picture of the life of schoolgirls in the nineteen seventies There is plenty of humour and some marvellous one liners which made me look at certain things in life in a different way If you like books which fit into several genres but are also in a genre all of their own then you may enjoy Louise Levene s writing I received a free copy of this book for review 1408842890 DNF partly because the badly formatted ARC Kindle is missing all combinations of ff.

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Which is a shame I really loved Louise Levene s A Vision of Loveliness when I read it last year It took me by surprise and delight and was the predominant reason why I thought I would give this novel a try. The following signatures And maybe I missed the point maybe I don t get it But to me it is far too late when the real driving plot of the novel doesn t start until you are practically two thirds of the way through Therefore whilst the writing was lovely and engaging and to be honest very nostalgic of my own teenage days in an all girl s school it came across as unevenly paced and meandering until the narrative finally kicked in. The following season 1 I d urge everyone to read A Vision of Loveliness instead 1408842890 The lives and troubles of four sixteen year old girls called Amanda It s difficult to describe this book and how it made me feel than meh but it wasn t that great I liked it to a certain degree so it s worth of a 2. The Following girlschase 5 star rating 1408842890

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For fans of An Education and My Summer of Love a powerful and biting social satire about a girl struggling to find freedom in 1970s suburbia When Amanda Baker was 14 she found a letter written by her runaway mother to her unborn child Dear Jeremy it began or Amanda Mrs Baker still sends Christmas presents Meccano a fishing rod a Spare Rib subscription but her daughter is now in the coolly capable hands of Mr Baker s second wife Pam who trots home from work on her stacked heels to her formica dream kitchen where she curls butter grills grapefruit and swigs sherry from the bottle hidden under the sink Meanwhile Amanda s dad soured by his experiences with free spirited women crossbreeds fuchsias and salivates over glossy prospectuses in search of a new school for his disappointing daughter The happiest days of your life Not for Baker sixteen and sick of it as she moves miserably between lessons packed with palm fibre and the use of the dative Baker s only solace is her fifth form gang the four Mandies and a low calorie diet of king sized cigarettes until she teams up with Julia Smith games captain and consummate game player And so begins a passionate friendship that will threaten her future menace her sanity and risk the betrayal of everything and everyone she holds dear The Following Girls weaves the minutiae of Seventies girlhood into an unsparing tragi comedy of shrinking horizons dangerous alliances and not so happy families The Following GirlsLouise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness a BBC Book at Bedtime published in May 2010 and in paperback in May 2011 She has been the dance critic of The Sunday Telegraph since 1998 but has also been an advertising copywriter a window dresser a radio presenter an office cleaner a crossword editor a college professor and a saleslady She lives in London with her husband and two children Ghastly Business published by Bloomsbury in July 2011 is a deliciously wicked witty tale of villainy scandal sex and science. The Following girlshockeyhub Watch the site_link book trailer for Ghastly Business Louise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness a BBC Book at Bedtime published in May 2010 and in paperback in May 2011 She has been the dance critic of The Sunday Telegraph since 1998 but has also been an advertising copywriter a window dresser a radio presenter an office cleaner a crossword editor a college professor and a saleslady She lives in London with her husband and two children Ghastly Business published by Bloomsbury in July 2011 is a deliciously wicked witty tale of villainy scandal sex and science. The Following girlsgogames 7 Watch the site_link book trailer for Ghastly Business site_link I had to DNF this one it was truly awful 1408842890 Kind of worth reading for the St Trinians St Clare s nostalgia and was occasionally quite funny but other than that nothing much happened 1408842890 It was okay quite boring at times and not a great deal happened overall Quite anti climactic especially given the blurb 1408842890 I liked this book but honestly half the time I had no idea what was going on 1408842890 The Following Girls does not refer to girls who follow someone or something It is instead a very schoolmarmish quote often heard in school classrooms and assemblies eg Will the following girls please step out of line or The following girls have been selected for the school play and so on. The following sas program is submitted This book is a story about a particular girl s life in an English girls school Malory towers it is not For starters it is not residential and for another the students and teachers seem to exist in a perpetual state of war Our protagonist is called Amanda Baker aka Baker so caught up in conventionality so afraid of what people might think and at times so angry for failing to love this child of his. The following sdks are not compatible Amanda is an intelligent girl and quite good at her studies She doesn t commit any great mistakes and I felt great sympathy for her when she is caught wearing the wrong shoes for gym and is terrified that the teachers will inform her father I mean that is such a pathetic thing to call parents for and an even pathetic thing for the child to be scared about it If someone had called my Dad that I was wearing the wrong shoes in school even if I did not understand the tendency of the Mandies to cause unnecessary disruptions in class by hiding the duster or changing schedules on walls It is like second nature for them to do so and implies a degree of individuality and freedom in school that is never possible in an Indian school Reprimands seem to have little or no effect on any of them The English school slang was a little difficult at times to understand but one gets its fairly easily in the end Its a story for girls and about girls and although very different from Enid Blyton is a nice read If you have ever studied in an all Girls school this will revive some pretty nostalgic memories for you 1408842890 I have read this author s previous two novels and enjoyed both of them This one is something a bit different Its heroine almost an anti heroine is Amanda Baker At the start of the book she is fourteen and goes around with three other girls called Amanda the Four Mandies Baker as she is mainly referred to is a thorn in the side of her father and step mother and as well as her school teachers I think the author captures extremely well the way schoolgirls in the nineteen seventies interacted Baker s mother left the family when Baker was three to find herself and still sends appropriate and inappropriate gifts to her daughter including amongst others fi fl and th which I thought I could get used to and really didn t but also because at 42% in nothing has happened aside from the girls moaning about their parents their teachers and school So I m not sure it would be keeping me interested even if I didn t have to contend with the eccentric copy 1408842890 RECEIVED FROM FIRST READS GIVEAWAY I have never been so pleased to finish a book I have no clue what the purpose of this story is Amanda baker is friends with 3 other Amandas They talk the usual teenage stuff about boys how they hate their teachers blah blah It was about page 100 that I realised that nothing really seemed to be happening the story starts in the middle of the story then it ends after another 150 or so pages of not a lot really happening except a girl being a misbehaved teenager and getting an ultimatum then it ends I just could not get into it at all 1408842890 Unfortunately disappointing.