Boekverslag Catherine Macphail

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Titel:	Bad company
Auteur:	Catherine Macphail
Jaar van uitgave:	2001
Aantal pagina's:	144

Auteur:	Catherine Macphail
Geslacht:	vrouw
Nationaliteit:	Engels
Geboren:	25 januari 1946
Populaire titels:	1994Run, Zan, Run (15) 2001Bad company (6) 2000Missing (2) 2001Tribes (1) 1998Fighting back (1) 1999Fugitive (0)

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  Door anoniem op 04-03-2008
  Lissa Blythe is 13 jaar.

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Bad Company Catherine MacPhail

Author:
Catherine MacPhail shot to success when her first novel, "Run, Zan, Run", won the Kathleen Fidler Award for new Scottish fiction. Catherine has quickly established a reputation as a writer of gritty, urban stories that tackle emotive contemporary issues but always work towards a positive solution.

Born: Greenock, January 25th 1946
Jobs: Assembling computers for IBM, housewife
Lives: Greenock
First Book for young people: Run Zan Run, 1994

Catherine MacPhail always wanted to be a writer, but "I didn't think wee lassies like me could do things like that. It was only after my children were born that I started going to the local Writers' Club. There I was given the confidence and encouragement to start sending my stories away." The first work she had published was a “twist-in-the-tale” story in Titbits magazine, followed by a story in The Sunday Post. After winning a romantic story competition in Woman’s Weekly, Catherine decided to concentrate on romantic novels. But after writing two, she decided “it wasn’t right for me”.

Main characters:
Lissa Blythe: Lissa Blythe is a girl, 15 years old, who feels deceived by her own father. She can no longer trust him. She becomes best girlfriends with Diana Connell, who doesn’t seem to have a good influence to her.

Jonathan Blyte (J.B.): The father of Lissa. When he went to prison his family lost everything. He turned there lives up side down. He’s trying to win faith in Lissa.

Dianna Connell: Just like Lissa, she is 15 years old. She persuades Lissa to solicit to do which she wants actually and gives her the feeling as if she has no one else but her.

Summary:
Lissa Blythe lives with her mother, her brother and little sister in a bad and small house. They are poor because their father was sent to jail. At first they had a large house and a rich life. Lissa hates her father and doesn’t want to see him anymore, but then her mother tells her that he is coming home. Her father wants to make contact with her and he says he would never take a wrong step, but Lissa doesn’t believe him.
Because of him her life sucks and she has no friends and she’s teased by the criminal Ralph Aird, whose father was in the same prison. One day a new girl comes in the class; Diane Connell. Because of Diane Lissa changes in a negative way and the depth point arises when Diane says to Lissa that she must destroy the collage which Ralph Aird made, and was very proud of. Ralph is very disappointed and wouldn’t go to school anymore. Because of her father she had to tell them she destroyed it. When she returns to school they were waiting and threw tomatoes and other fruits into her face. Master Murdoch knows for sure that Diane was also there and becomes very angry with her. Diane hates him for that.
Lissa's father tries hard to find work, but does not succeed after the prison sentence. He works at burger place, but he is not happy there. Lissa is frightened that he deals with offenders and he is always visited by Magnus Pierce, an offender. One day she says to Mr Pierce that he must leave her father alone. Then she sees to it that her father has no contact with Pierce, but the police force launch a plan to catch Pierce. Pierce doesn’t let her go and forces her father to come. Then the police force invades the office and frees them and catches Pierce. He is quickly released, but then later found dead.
Diane accuses Mr Murdoch of abusing her- he supposidly hurt her fingers with his desk. Diane persuades Lissa to lie about it. She does it to help her friend out, but later tells the truth when she finds out Mr Murdoch could be sacked. She never sees Diane again. Mr Murdoch forgives her, as does the rest of her class.

Review:
I found it a nice book to read. The subject spoke me because it is of this time; it could occur now. The book is sometimes difficult to understand considering it was all diary’s pieces which were in the book. But fortunately there was a word list in the back of book, which explained some of the words further. By the diary piece’s complete well in the protagonist Lissa, you could really imagine what she was going through. Like the bullying of Ralph, how much she hated her father, and how her ideas changed in the course of the book. I also learned something; that your way of living can change very fast, just because the influence of others. Of course I knew that, but not that that could happen in a negative way. The father of Lissa, as it happens, was influenced by Mr Pierce and as a result went to prison. Lissa was influenced by Diana and did things she would never have done if Diana wasn’t her best friend. In short: it was nice, realistic, captivating book. Certainly worth to read!

Het Engels is misschien niet helemaal goed, dit was namelijk niet voor cijfer en ik heb dus niet erg op de spellingsfouten etc. gelet.