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The Flip Side


Title The Flip Side
Writer Andrew Matthews
Date 2024-10-11 16:53:12
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Desciption

Andrew Matthews is the author of many books for young readers in his native England.From the Hardcover edition.


Review

Some spoilers.Yay. I read a whole book in one day. True, it was only 147 pages with large print, but hey, I feel like I'm a GR contender.This is a British YA number about a 15 year old boy, Robert, who, by being cast to play Rosalind in a scene from As You Like It in an English class, discovers he likes to dress as a girl. His inner Rosalind is nurtured by Milena, also searching for her identity, who helps with his clothes and make-up. They get something going but run into problems when Milena feels that Rob's Rosalind is more important to him than she is. Things are resolved and they get back together when he dresses like a real man and takes charge of the situation.Despite the slightly weird ending, the novel is humane and reasonable about everything. But it was too short, the action too quickly advanced by Milena's uncanny maturity, which bypasses oceans of doubt, exploration and hard-won self-knowledge on Robert's part.I love As You Like It, largely because of its gender-bending theme. I was hoping for something of the same thrill from this book, but it didn't really deliver, unfortunately.

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