I started this at nine o'clock at night - thinking I would just start a few chapters and finish it in the morning - and didn't stop reading it up until I had finished. Luckily it wasn't a school night!

I had very high expectations for this book - after reading (and re-reading) and raving about Skin Deep, Laura Jarratt's fantastic debut novel which was also given to me by Guardian Children's Books - and I am so happy that it lived up to them. There were absolutely no problems with this book, apart from a slightly predictable ending - though without it, there would probably be no book.

The characters were believable, the storyline interesting, and whilst there were no real surprises, the fantastic writing kept me hooked from the very first page.

It's about a girl called Holly, used to being respected: perfect and popular, who is one day forced to move from the neighbourhood she has always known to the middle of the countryside by witness protection because of an incident she is accidentally involved in. She is no longer bold and brilliant, but quiet and despised, and as she misses her old life, she doesn't realise how dangerous it could be to contact anyone from her old life...

Definitely worth five starts, I cannot wait for Laura Jarratt's next book after reading both fantastic novels!

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