5/12/2023 0 Comments Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy![]() ![]() Knowing about Alice’s past makes it so much easier for me to understand why she committed a murder. ![]() Her relationship with the bossy, arrogant Michelle and the shy, mouse-like Lucy is also very well shown. Cassidy doesn’t make it difficult for us to see Jennifer’s pre-school adoration of her gorgeous mother, her fear of being abandoned and finally, the more mature Jennifer learning to cope on her own. Through flashbacks, we get an insight into the Berwick Waters’s case and Jennifer’s childhood. While reading the book, we gradually learn about Alice’s dangerous past as Jennifer Jones, finding out that she killed another child. This one sentence provides information about what the book is about and the instant we read it, it makes us intrigued. ![]() “Three children walked away from the edge of town one day – but only two of them came back…” is the sentence written at the backside of Anne Cassidy’s book called Looking for JJ. The novel is a great example of it being possible, with the author making it easy for us to understand Alice’s case. Can people change? Is it possible for people to make a fresh start after doing something horrible? Will a criminal who has committed a serious crime ever be able to change if given a chance to start over with a clean state? Those are the questions that Alice Tully, the main character of one of Anne Cassidy’s novels, keeps asking herself. ![]()
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