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Title:
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This is how you remember it |
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Authors:
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Prasifka, Catherine |
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Genre:
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Fiction |
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Pages:
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275 |
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Year:
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2024 |
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Publisher:
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Canongate |
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Language:
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English |
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Description:
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It all starts so innocently with virtual pets but as is the way of things, before long it is chatrooms and sites where you have no business being. As time passes, it becomes a life lived online, curated for the camera, bruised from the savagery and seduction of social media and barely shored up by a precarious sense of self. Raw and gritty, this is the powerful coming-of-age story of an all too familiar young woman grappling with the human cost of growing up online.
Comments from BDS Reviewers:"The novel is likely to strike a chord with most adults, and remind them of past memories and teenage mistakes."
"The way that this author highlights the addictive and harmful effects of social media and the internet was really clever."
"As a young adult who grew up with the internet evolving around me, this book really resonated with me."
"Although there is quite a bit of graphic, sexually explicit content - I feel there is a place for it in this kind of book."
"The book perfectly captures the experience of being a girl growing up with the internet, and how her phone comes to dominate her life."
"The author does a great job of explaining how all- consuming social media can be, and the effect it can have on self-worth."
"I was really struck by the progression of a 9 year old's quest to find photos of cute animals, to her acccessing material she was too young to comprehend."
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Categories:
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Fiction, Contemporary, Science & Technology, Social commentary/perspectives, Young narrator, UK, Just Added, 2026 Titles, New Adult |
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