Dear Nobody

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Summary: It is a very impressive book!
Review: The book is easy to read but I was thrilled by the story. You can feel with the different persons and you can imagine their feelings. During the whole book the tension is always there. I think the subject (pregnancy and abortion) is very important today and this book tells open about the difficulties when a teenager becomes a baby. You can see how difficult it is to stand her own feelings at the tender age of sixteen. The book shows that life could be very hard and painful for example when you have to educate the baby on your own opinion or that you have difficulties to get a job or to finish the school. The boys have also to be concerned on this subject. Girls and Boys have to think what they do. I think the writer will this bring up to the people. Helen (the main person) felt finally lucky about Amy her little daughter. Mirjam Wenzinger

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Summary: A special book
Review: The book is written from two sites. It describes the way Helen feels in her letters to "nobody" which is in fact her unborn baby, and it shows the different sights of the persons in the difficult situations. The story doesn't really surprise you, when you start to read, you can already see the end, in a way it even starts with the end... The actions of the people are realistic and you understand them all. And it motivates you to think more about the problematic, "What would I do", "How would I react" and "Would I make an abortion". When you've finished the book, you don't really know if it has a happy end or not, which I think is positive. There are enough books with happy end's and bad end's... but the end in this book "Dear Nobody" is more real then many other. After all a really great book! R.S.

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Summary: A special book
Review: The book is written from two sites. It describes the way Helen feels in her letters to "nobody" which is in fact her unborn baby, and it shows the different sights of the persons in the difficult situations. The story doesn't really surprise you, when you start to read, you can already see the end, in a way it even starts with the end... The actions of the people are realistic and you understand them all. And it motivates you to think more about the problematic, "What would I do", "How would I react" and "Would I make an abortion". When you've finished the book, you don't really know if it has a happy end or not, which I think is positive. There are enough books with happy end's and bad end's... but the end in this book "Dear Nobody" is more real then many other. After all a really great book! R.S.

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Summary: Emotions, emotions, emotions
Review: The novel written by Berlie Doherty is focused on a close relationship between the two seniors Chris and Helen. Helen gets unwanted pregnant after they made love for the first time. Now both have to cope with their new situation. Helen expresses her feelings and thoughts in writing - letters to her unborn child. In these letters it becomes clear that her mother influenced her a lot and doesn't want to help her daughter to bring up the baby. On the other hand there is Chris who tells his view of the situation in the narrative part of the text. They often have different opinions about every day-problems like many other teenagers have. In the course of the book Helen learns to handle the situation and realizes that she isn't really ready for Chris.
We read in our Englishclass. In our opinion the story is written in a realistic way but we can't imagine to get into such a situation. We also have to say that it's stupid to forget to use contraceptions. Nevertheless some passages can almost move you to tears.

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Summary: Recommendable for youths
Review: The novel „Dear Nobody" by Berlie Doherty deals with the problems of young people who are going to become parents.
The main characters, Helen and Chris are about 18 years old, love each other very much and are full of dreams when they have sex without contraception and Helen gets pregnant. This changes their lives completely. At first Helen doesn't talk about her pregnancy, but Chris knows something is wrong, they get more and more distant. After Helen has told her boyfriend and her mother about the child, she feels relieved, but they can't really help her and Helen still considers the baby to be an obstacle, a Nobody. But this changes after she has been to an abortion clinic, there she realizes for the first time that it's a human being growing inside her and she decides to keep the baby.
From then on Helen's relationship to her mother gets even worse than it already was and she decides to finish with Chris, she only thinks of the baby now...
I can recommend this book to every young person, because it deals with all the problems and sorrows, but also the joy of an unwanted pregnancy. I guess it shows in a realistic way how the young parents experience this time and it's nice and exciting to read. You can identify with both Helen and Chris and can't stop reading until you know how the story goes on.

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Summary: Not boring, not interesting
Review: The novel Dear Nobody written by Berlie Doherty is about an unwanted pregnancy.
This book deals with a very serious theme and shows the problem which you have, when you get pregnant.
I can't say, that I don't like the novel, but it's a little bit boring, because everywhere you here something about that theme and the novel you don't get to know something new.
But some party of the novel are interesting.
Well, all in all, I can say, that it wasn't a waste of time reading "Dear Nobody".

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Summary: Recommendable for youths
Review: The novel „Dear Nobody" by Berlie Doherty deals with the problems of young people who are going to become parents.
The main characters, Helen and Chris are about 18 years old, love each other very much and are full of dreams when they have sex without contraception and Helen gets pregnant. This changes their lives completely. At first Helen doesn't talk about her pregnancy, but Chris knows something is wrong, they get more and more distant. After Helen has told her boyfriend and her mother about the child, she feels relieved, but they can't really help her and Helen still considers the baby to be an obstacle, a Nobody. But this changes after she has been to an abortion clinic, there she realizes for the first time that it's a human being growing inside her and she decides to keep the baby.
From then on Helen's relationship to her mother gets even worse than it already was and she decides to finish with Chris, she only thinks of the baby now...
I can recommend this book to every young person, because it deals with all the problems and sorrows, but also the joy of an unwanted pregnancy. I guess it shows in a realistic way how the young parents experience this time and it's nice and exciting to read. You can identify with both Helen and Chris and can't stop reading until you know how the story goes on.

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Summary: Dear Nobody was awesome!
Review: This book was soooo good! I couldnt put the book down! I would recommend this book to a anyone who enjoys highschool/teenage drama. The shared narative of Helen and Chris was wonderful. Berlie Doherty allows the readers to know both sides of the relationship. This is a wonderful book! I Love it!

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Summary: A bitter sweet look into the world of a pregnant teenager
Review: This book was stunningly beautiful. The plot is lovely and the characters are real. This book creats no pretty illusions. It reveals the frightening reality of being young and pregnant. Helen and Chris are young, foolish and in love. They are in no way ready for the results of unprotected sex. When Helen discovers she is pregnant, she is terrified. But soon, she is ready to deal with her pregnancy, and Chris is not. Chris stands by her, but she ends the relationship, feeling its for his own good. But Chris feels he has a right to play a part in his babys life. This story is magnificently told, and truthful. Unlike other stories of pregnant teenagers, this book precents the an honest veiw of Helen and Chris's situation. I would recommened this book to anyone, its so wonderful that everyone deserves to read it.

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Summary: WOW!
Review: This is one of the BEST books i have ever read. I have indeed read other books by the author. I think they were "Daughter of the Sea" and "The Snake Stone". However good they were, they certainly were not as good as this one. It was so damn touching man! It was really sad it had to end up that way . Then again, it wouldn't have been touching otherwise!

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