Name: Tender
ISBN: 9781407185286

Eve Ainsworth

For Marty and Daisy, life is about pretending. Pretending means everything's fine. Pretending means not thinking about what's really going on. But the thing about pretending is, at some point, it has to stop. And then what? Written by the stellar Eve Ainsworth, TENDER is an important, insightful and real look into the lives of young carers.

Tender

Touching on mental health, family, friendship and the pressures that teenage carers face, as author Cat Clarke says, TENDER is "a compassionate, compelling and unflinching novel". Marty and Daisy spend their lives pretending. Marty pretends his mum's grip on reality isn't slipping by the day. Daisy pretends her parents aren't exhausting themselves while they look after her incurably ill brother. They both pretend they're fine. But the thing about pretending is, at some point, it has to stop. And then what?

Cute plot, but the writing lacked depth which was hard to get past.

Tender

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