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 Price £5.99
ISBN 0 340 86064 2
Published by Hodder Bite 2004
www.bookswithbite.co.uk
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‘ Now I know how
betrayal poisons things – how it’s
like a deadly toxin trickling down, contaminating
everything it touches…’
Isabel and Macy are the best of mates. What
could ever come between them? Then Isabel meets
Duncan. He’s kind, funny and not bad-looking – she
knows he’d never hurt her. When they all
get together in Edinburgh, it’s going to
brilliant. It’s going to be the perfect summer… |
 Isabel Bright has finally got it together with Duncan,
her cyber-space friend from Scotland. Things are going
pretty well despite the fact that they live so far apart.
But Isabel is talented and ambitious and playing ‘Medea’ in
London and at the Edinburgh fringe is a great opportunity… When
Duncan comes to visit, Isabel is so busy with play rehearsals
that she doesn’t see as much of Duncan as she might.
Best friend Macy feels a little sorry for him. Duncan’s
a laugh, and he and Macy have a lot in common. After all,
he is her best friend’s boyfriend so of course they
get along - what’s the problem? Except things go
a little further than they should…
Can Isabel forgive
and forget? How can a broken friendship be repaired?
Can poisoned things ever be made good again?
…’like its characters, Poisoned has depths
underneath the surface sheen and this makes for a satisfying
and enjoyable read.’ Books for Keeps
‘…all three characters were very vividly described
and readers of Voices would relish this sequel.’ Reviews:
Twelve to Sixteen
I liked the characters
in Voices so much that I wanted to write about them again,
so I wrote a sequel. Voices
ends with Isabel and Duncan meeting properly for the
first time after months of letters and e-mails and there’s
such a spark between them that I wanted to find out how
things developed!
I was also interested in Isabel’s
friendship with Macy. How enduring was it? What would
put it to the test?
What happens to the dynamics of a friendship when one
of the friends starts going out with someone? And what
happens
if the other friend finds herself fancying that person
too?
Voices explores the idea of forgiveness – a
key theme in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. How can
you forgive someone who hurts you? And what happens if
you don’t? In Poisoned, Performing Arts students
Isabel and Macy travel to London and Edinburgh, acting
in an ancient
Greek play
called Medea. This is a dark and bitter play about betrayal
and poisoning – a play in which forgiveness is
rejected in favour of revenge.
Isabel has a choice – should she forgive Macy and
Duncan or not? The choice is yours!
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