My Name is Jodie Jones
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By Emma Shevah
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From then on, I collected sentences like other people collect keyrings. I searched for them everywhere . . .
Jodie Jones is obsessed with words. Yet she can’t find the ones to say what happened that day five years ago, with her mum, on the bridge.
Struggling in school and at home, she takes comfort in her safe places: her books. Her best friend. And her brother’s friend, Moses – who makes her feel something new.
But when hidden family truths come to light and life starts to implode, can Jodie Jones find the words she needs to save herself?
A compelling, witty, moving love letter to the magic of words.
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Really enjoyed reading this book. Quite a traumatic story about Jodie Jones. Her family goes through traumatic loss of her grandma and also Jodie and her mother faced a terrible incident which has affected Jodie Jones and her mother Monica.. Her father Elliot is affected by the loss of his mother and this puts a massive strain on his relationship with Monica who a very controlling person in the family. Jodie Jones struggles with school and ends up seeing a psychiatrist Dr Kumar who eventually gets Jodie to open up about what she goes through and discovers her mother has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
I liked the character Jodie Jones. I liked that she loves words and reading books. Not many teenagers like reading. I liked that Jodie had a good friend in Becca and throughout the story she gets quite close to her brother Champ. There mother puts a lot of pressure on all members of the family with her controlling ways and high expectations. I loved the twist with Champ and his friend. Did not see that coming or the violence from Jodie mother towards Jodie. I thought it was strange that the school had not picked on Jodie condition and how it was affecting her. Both parents had taken their eyes off the ball. Elliot was dealing with the mothers death and Monica just took over everything and maybe took on too much.
I was glad there was a happy ending towards this traumatic story just a shame the family had eventually split. Learnt about Neurodiversity. There are a lot of different conditions and believe that more needs to be done educate everyone about this condition. The author did a great job of highlighting the issues and other conditions. Brilliant book and would highly recommend that people read this story
