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A review by coops456
Needle by Patrice Lawrence
5.0
A short but beautiful read, about love, and choices, and empathy.
I'm 50 years old, but I can still remember the rage I felt as a teenager. Which was actually so many different feelings - from grief to shame to frustration to misery - that I felt unable to express and which leaked out as anger and sullenness.
And if I'd not been able to channel my energies into sport, if I'd not had the consistent loving presence of my mum, if I'd not been white and middle-class and so pigeonholed differently by authority figures, where might that rage have led me?
This made me cry. And think.
I'm 50 years old, but I can still remember the rage I felt as a teenager. Which was actually so many different feelings - from grief to shame to frustration to misery - that I felt unable to express and which leaked out as anger and sullenness.
And if I'd not been able to channel my energies into sport, if I'd not had the consistent loving presence of my mum, if I'd not been white and middle-class and so pigeonholed differently by authority figures, where might that rage have led me?
This made me cry. And think.