A review by gabrielrobartes
Bad Alice by Jean Ure

4.0

More like a 3.5 but 3 stars felt churlish! It's a novella more than a novel but tightly and meticulously constructed. The narrator and his Tourette's are handled sensitively (but not with kid gloves) and the core issue equally so. My only niggle is the texts that form a "story within a story" - I never really felt that they had the authentic voice of the Alice we get to know in the outer story. Still, an interesting take on a challenging subject . I'm curious to know what my own children make of it.