Kate and Emma
Kate and Emma by Monica Dickens, published by Penguin in 1984, is a novel that explores the lives of two young girls from contrasting backgrounds. The story begins in a juvenile court in London, where 16-year-old Kate finds herself in need of care and protection. Emma, the daughter of the magistrate, has a unique perspective on the struggles faced by adolescents and small children, having accompanied a social worker on his calls. Their paths cross again in a supermarket, where Emma is learning the business, leading to a deep friendship that transcends their different circumstances.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into the complexities of adolescence, parental relationships, and the challenges of growing up. The novel presents themes of love, hate, despair, and hope as both girls navigate their individual paths in life. With 286 pages, this edition offers a thoughtful examination of the emotional and social issues that young people face, highlighting the impact of family dynamics and personal struggles.
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Monica Dickens’ novel opens in a juvenile court in London. One of the young offenders is a 16-year-old girl, Kate, who is described as being in need of care and protection. In the court is a girl only slightly older, Emma, daughter of the magistrate. From her experience of going around with a social worker on his calls she knows that adolescents and, more important, small children are daily subjected to neglect and brutality and that “care and protection” cannot be prescribed like National Health aspirin.She meets Kate again, by chance, in her Uncle’s supermarket where she is learning the business from the bottom up. And between these two girls, from different backgrounds, with very different parents who have different personal problems, there springs up a friendship which is deep and, for a while at any rate, beyond misunderstanding.Each girl has her way to make in life; each has her love, hate, despair, and hope; each the complications of parental control sapped by the inner knowledge of marriages that no longer work.
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