Seeing and Understanding: Narrative Technique in Berlie Doherty’s Dear Nobody
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21153/pecl2005vol15no1art1258Keywords:
teenage pregnancy, narratology, Berlie Doherty, Dear NobodyAbstract
Berlie Doherty's young adult novel, 'Dear Nobody', published in 1991, won the Carnegie Medal in the following year and has since been made into a radio play, a television screen-play, and a theatre script. The novel deals with teenage pregnancy and offers different characters with varied but credible reactions in modern Western societies.
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