Be Nice

Be Nice

by Anabel Donald (Author)

Synopsis

'Ever read Lord of the Flies?' said Rohini. 'Of course. Set book, year ten. And...?' 'Same situation.' 'Different gender.' A plane crashes on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. On it are thirty English girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen, winners of a competition organised by a company selling feminine hygiene products. Each has had to write an essay on her aspirations, subsequently posted on her own website. Twenty-one of the girls survive and, when no rescue comes, are compelled to devise their own rules in order to stay alive. A brilliant reworking of Golding's classic novel, in Be Nice Anabel Donald takes us into the minds of her teenage characters as they play out a struggle that is as old as the human race and as new as the Internet.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 18 Jul 2002

ISBN 10: 0224063081
ISBN 13: 9780224063081
Book Overview: Twenty-one teenage girls stranded on a desert island - a brilliant reworking of Lord of the Flies.

Author Bio
Anabel Donald has been writing fiction since 1982 when her first novel, Hannah at Thirty-five, was published to great critical acclaim. In her thirty-six-year teaching career she has taught adolescent girls in private boarding schools, a comprehensive and an American university. Most recently, she has written the five Alex Tanner crime novels in the Notting Hill series.