I am not Esther

Beale, Fleur

Librarian's Miscellania

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SENIOR FICTION L15302
SENIOR FICTION L01466
SENIOR FICTION L18990

Reviews

Date Reviewer Review
18/08/2015 07:12:29This novel is about a girl called Kirby, her mum mysteriously leaves her saying she has to go work in Africa with the refugees. She is left to live with family she never knew existed, it is bad enough that she only has two days notice before she has to leave Auckland to go to Wanganui, she has to live by 'The Rule' that the religious family lives by which is driving Kirby insane because they don't even call her by her actual name, they call her Esther. Why would her mother do this to her?
28/08/2015 07:20:27This book is about a young girl called Kirby whose mother sends her off to her deeply religious family that she didn't know existed.The 16 year old girl has her life changed by the Rule the massive family has to obey. The family tries to change her identity by changing her name to Esther. There's a secret in the family that no one talks about. You either obey or are deemed dead.