Playing with the Grown-Ups, (Paperback)

from punkypower

I thoroughly enjoyed it. Dahl includes a bit of everything: fantasy, comedy, drama, young adult problems, but mostly the brutal reality of life. The only reason I gave it four stars is that it wasn't one that I had to tear through. I could go a day or two without reading from it, and that was oka...

from Lallybroch

Sophie Dahl's debut book had loads of promise, but didn't quite live up to my expectations. The quirky characters were fun, and the writing, at times, was absolutely wonderful. Other times, though, the writing seemed very choppy as if parts were missing as we moved from scene to scene. Overall, s...

from bpompon

I enjoyed reading this book. Kitty Fitzgerald is the kind of girl I might have envied when I was her age. We get to see the fun loving and whimsical nature of her family, but behind that is a much darker side which overshadows much of her life. It's a coming of age story in which most of us will ...

from LynnB

Playing with the Grown-ups tells the story of the teenage years of Kitty. Her mother, Marina, is a beautiful artist who makes a series of bad choices: Kitty was born when her mother was 16, her father being an older married man. Marina's subsequent marriage ended in divorce while she was pregnant...

from readingrat

Playing with the Grownups is a GenX coming-of-age story told from the point of view of Kitty, a child born to an unmarried high school student who had an affair with a married man. This story is as much the story of Kitty's coming-of-age as it is a story of the coming-of-age of her mother, Marina...