Unbecoming

by Jenny Downham

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Three women - three secrets - one heart-stopping story.

Katie, seventeen, in love with someone whose identity she can't reveal. Her mother Caroline, uptight, worn out and about to find the past catching up with her. Katie's grandmother, Mary, back with the family after years of mysterious absence and 'capable of anything', despite suffering from Alzheimers. As Katie cares for an elderly woman who brings daily chaos to her life, she finds herself drawn to her. Rules get broken as allegiances shift. Is Mary contagious? Is 'badness' genetic? In confronting the past, Katie is forced to seize the...Read more
  • ISBN10 1910200646
  • ISBN13 9781910200643
  • Publish Date 3 September 2015
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 April 2023
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint David Fickling Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 448
  • Language English