110, NG53, F58, E106 / WG57, M52, NA9, D4, B8, C1

Lisa Jewell, Vince and Joy

Das erste der letzten drei Bücher, die mir von Lisa Jewell noch fehlen, und wieder eins von denen, die mich anrührten, auch wenn diese Serie von Mißverständnissen und verpassten Chancen mich nervös machten - ich finde Mißverständnisse, vor allem mit so weitreichenden Folgen, einfach unerträglich. An dem Happy Ending gefiel mir, dass Jewell uns das ever after erspart, dass sowieso den Erwartungen nie gerecht werden könnte.
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They were about fourteen. Some looked old for their age, some looked young, but they all had that air of self-conscious desperation that Vince remembered so well from his own adolescence.
His peers had seemed so mysterious to him when he was fourteen. He couldn't have imagined what any of them were really thinking or feeling, what they really dreamed about or what they really wanted. They were each hermetically sealed against the world, hungry to taste it yet terrified to let it in in case it revealed their inherent childishness, unwordliness, uncoolness.
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(Lisa Jewell, Vince and Joy, 2005)