I found your diary door Frances Thomas

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Boek
Auteur
Frances Thomas
Genre
Jeugdboek
Taal
Engels
Vak
Eerste uitgave
2004
Pagina's
110
Oorspronkelijke taal
Engels

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I found your diary door Frances Thomas
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I Found Your Diary

by Frances Thomas

Wolters -Noordhoff, Groningen, 2006/
Andersen Press Limited, UK, 2004
Copyright© 2004 by Frances Thomas
101 pages
2.1

When I first started reading I expected this book to be much alike the previous one, (Hitler’s Daugher by Jackie French) because it’s in the Young Blackbirds Series, too.

2.2

This book was a lot better than Hitler’s Daughter, but I still can’t call it one of my favorites. The story is interesting, but too short and lacks a plot.

3.1

After Tom Palmer finds a thrown away diary, he becomes fascinated with the life of the owner, Hannah.
She is in love with her teacher, who appears to like her, too. She sees ghosts looking like herself and becomes anorexic.
Tom finds it hard to concentrate because he just can’t put Hannah and her problems out of his head. He tries to bring the diary back and meets Hannah on the last page:
‘Hannah?’
‘Who wants to know?’
‘Hannah,’ I say, ‘I found your diary.’

3.2

Hannah Townsend and Tom Palmer are the main characters. Their main concern is Hanna’s problems. Hannah doesn’t know Tom at all and Tom has never seen her, only read about her.
Hanna:
She’s about sixteen or seventeen. She’s wearing a summer dress with a cardigan flung over it - the dress is pink, clingy and embroidered with tiny flowers. The cardigan is deeper pink with a little ruffle around the neck. She’s wearing strappy sandals, and no tights. Though her legs are pale, they look good. She isn’t that tall, maybe not quite as tall as I imagined. She’s thin and delicate, but not at all like a skeleton. You could pinch those arms and find them soft and cushiony.
And her face. It isn’t quite the Hannah I imagined, but she’s certainly gorgeous. She’s dark - I was right about that, but her hair has a chestnut tint to it, and it billows around her face in a pre-Raphaelite sort of way. Her face is pale, and her eyes are big and dark - hazel or dark blue, I can’t quite see from here.
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Nothing is mentioned about Tom’s appearance, as he just comments on the pieces of diary you read.
Hannah gets a relationship with her English teacher that ends during the story. She learns that a crush doesn’t have to be the love of your life.
There aren’t any significant examples, because the diary ends before Hannah could give them.
I think the character I’m most attracted to is Hannah, because she has a lot of problems and deals with them.
The character I like least is Hannah’s father, because isn’t nice towards his daughter and isn’t involved in the family.
3.3

Most important events take place in Tom’s and Hannah’s houses, and in Hannah’s school.

3.4

You read passages of Hannah’s diary, and at the end of every chapter Tom comments on what has just happened.
Every chapter consists of about 2 or 3 days.
The story has an open ending (as you can see in 2.3, the last sentence is;
‘Hannah,’ I say, ‘I found your diary.’
You don’t know how Hannah will react, and what exactly happened with her ghost figures.
There is one flashback in the story, when Tom Palmer remembers what happened between him and his girlfriend on a certain night.

3.5

Like already said, every chapter you get to read a few days from Hannah’s diary followed by Tom saying what he thinks. This is reliable information because it is told by the persons themselves.
Maybe the reader is manipulated; Tom gives his personal opinion all the time.

3.6

I think the writing style is a bit too light. It goes from one subject to another really quick and I think it is a bit too average.

3.7

I think the main theme is; the problems of a young girl, but I’m not really sure.
‘No breakfast again, and just an apple for lunch. I’ve lost 2 pounds!!!’
‘Oh my God, I feel like I’m floating.’ ‘I said, ‘hello, Sir’ and he said ‘Hello, Hannah’’
Because Tom reads about these problems in Hannah’s diary, the title is a little bit connected to the title.
I haven’t read another book about a girls problems, so I can’t really compare it.

3.8

Frances Thomas was born in Wales in 1943. She moved to London where she studied English at London University.
Frances Thomas teaches dyslexic children at home. The rest of her time she spends writing books for children and adults. She has won some awards for her children’s books and Seeing Things, her first adult novel, was nominated for an award for the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1986. She also wrote a biography of the 19th century poet Christina Rossetti.
She is married to the historian Professor Richard Rathbone and she has two daughters.
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4.

Overall I found feeling a bit cheap. It is a pretty good idea for a story, but I think it just isn’t what it could’ve been.
I was impressed by the idea of seeing your own ghost walking around, that’s pretty scary.
I think the parts in which Tom keeps commenting are the least successful.
I wouldn’t read more books by this author nor would I advise others read this book because while reading I found your diary wasn’t curious what would happen next. For me, that means enough

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