![]() She’s what school psychologists would now call a classic introvert, but the fascinating thing is that she was not an introvert at her previous school. ![]() Was very aware of her voice first and foremost, very certain that the reader would be hearing her thoughts and not ![]() Representation of institutions that value success at all human cost. However, Laurinda is a completely fictional school. I had to let him know that these things actually happened! 15 year old girls can be real pieces of work sometimes. When my editor was editing Laurinda, he felt that some parts were so far-fetched he asked me whether I could change theĮxamples. ![]() Taken from direct experience, or experiences of my teacher friends. So I’ve always been interested in how teenagers As a teenager, though, you are forced to fit yourself in amongst 200-1000 other people, who are all with you every day. As an adult you can choose your friends, and your time is finite, so of course, you try to only spend time with people Life where a large part of your identity is actually shaped by other people. Had immediately changed - but because people’s perceptions of me had. In each new high school I felt like I was a slightly different person - not because anything about me High schools, and I have always been fascinated by the way institutions shape individuals. ![]() Many questions about Laurinda at launches, public talks and over the radio, so I thought I would share these written answers with readers about the book: ![]()
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