Carelessness by Kirsty Capes Review-A Rare Newcomer | Novel

TonThe teenage heroine is ten cents, but from time to time someone will hang out to give you a gay and slap you in the eyes with her story. carelessIt’s Kirsty Capes’s debut, telling the story of the 15-year-old Bess who just found out that she was pregnant with Boy, a 19-year-old rebel who had no reason/shelf stacker in Tesco when he hit a stolen car She met when she arrived at the church. Getting pregnant at the age of 15 is complicated enough, but Beth has been taken care of by a foster family since she was four, and her relationship with her foster mother, Lisa, is worrying. Should she keep the baby, or miscarry and pursue her dream?

Nursing narratives are rare in novels—— Tracy Beaker Inevitably think of, of course, Capes and Jacqueline Wilson Gentleness to her fragile character, and understanding of the deep and tricky friendships between girls.There is the shadow of Georgia Nicholson, the lively heroine Louise RenisonYA books from and Caitlin Moran’s books Johanna Mulligan. But although careless This is an adult story written in a very easy-to-understand style. It is full of adults’ understanding of relationship dynamics. Perhaps the most heartfelt is the struggle that young women may face in order to have their own bodies. The abortion scene is one of them) the most shocking moment in the book). This is also a tribute to the salvation provided by female friendship-Beth’s best friend Eshar has encountered her own problems in preparing for an arranged marriage.

Capes himself is a nursing staff with a doctorate in nursing narrative of contemporary fiction, Bernardine EvaristoThe guidance of Booker Prize winners is undoubtedly helpful-Capps attributes her help to descriptive images. However, I think the basic emotion of this story is Capps. Beth’s voice came from the pages of the book: “My two life choices are either done very, very well in school so that I can leave Shepperton as soon as possible… or become one of the locals at the crossroads, they drink It’s so much that they all lost their teeth. I can walk any way now.” She can reveal to you an unexpected revelation about the restrictions of foster homes: “In this family, we don’t talk about love,” she writes Tao. “We just didn’t. This is a very important thing; violation of the rules, first of all, those who say that foster care cannot hug you or take you to a haircut without permission.”

I can say without shame that this novel made me cry. Although there is no preaching at all, it provides a deep insight into the impact of conditional love on the “cared for” child. “There is a problem with the care, the care system, and it has to do with making us a deal,” Beth said. Capes is a rare new talent, and she wrote something very special here: a novel of change, with the lightest brushstrokes.