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Jodie

"An atmospheric contemporary ghost story with emotional depth, themes of finding your tribe, and an engagingly readable style"

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May 2023 Book of the Month | Reading Age 8+ Interested Age 9+

One for reluctant readers who might just discover the pleasures of fiction through being swept into a succinct and thrilling modern ghost story with real-world resonance. With a compulsively rhythmic style, and much empathy, Hilary McKay’s Jodie is unpredictable, and moving with it.

From the opening pages, we become immersed in Jodie’s perspective: “Some people are talkers, but I’m a listener. I never tell anyone anything”. She’s also a loner, recently moved to a new school as a result of a host of family problems.

The action kicks off in the context of a field trip to a salt marsh: “Imagine mud – cold sea mud. Watery mud, reflecting the sky. Ancient mud”. With her favourite teacher unable to make the trip, Jodie wishes she’d stayed at home, not least when she feels excluded by the other girls in her dorm.

Feeling more left out than usual, Jodie walks to the marsh in pursuit of a dog. Then, when she’s trapped by the tide, remarkable things happen, ultimately revealing that loneliness isn’t permanent. It’s possible to find friendship with people who, like you, are “interesting and different”.

Joanne Owen

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