Home Girl, Alex Wheatle
Home Girl, Alex Wheatle
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Home Girl

Author: Alex Wheatle

Narrator: Zoe Grisedale

Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/03/2019


Synopsis

‘This isn’t my home. Haven’t had a proper home since … This is just somewhere I’ll be resting my bones for a week and maybe a bit.

This time next year you’ll forget who I am. I haven’t got a diddly where I’ll be by then.

But I’m used to it’

Home Girl is the story of Naomi, a teenage girl growing up fast (far too fast) in the care system. It sheds light on an unsettling life—and the consequences that can follow when children are treated like pawns on a family chessboard.

Home Girl is fast-paced and funny, tender, tragic and full of courage, just like Naomi. It is award-winning author Alex Wheatle’s most moving and personal novel to date.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kerry on April 24, 2020

As a former foster parent, this is an interesting YA novel about an English white teenage girl who bounces from foster home to foster home. She finally finds peace of mind with a Black family, which breaks one of the myths people have about child placement. Foster kids just need to know someone valu......more

Goodreads review by Eve beinguniquebeingme on March 21, 2019

Naomi has grown up in foster care since her mum committed suicide and her dad became an alcoholic leaving Naomi to care for him before the council took her into care. Since being in care she has tried many placements and tried to find permanent care in a new family but instead has had tons of homes u......more

Goodreads review by Siobhan on March 16, 2019

Home Girl is a young adult novel about being in the care system and chasing stability. Naomi is a fourteen year old girl about to move in with new emergency foster parents. She likes horror films, drinking Coke, and dancing, and she used to care for her alcoholic father before going into care. The n......more

Goodreads review by Amanto on April 02, 2019

Mais um livro que leio seguidamente e fala sobre adoção. História bacana cheia de altos e baixos com potencial continuação.......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on July 07, 2019

When I read the synopsis of this on Netgalley I wasn’t quite sure what I was getting myself into, I knew it sounded interesting but I wasn’t expecting to be “hit in the feels” as much as I was. "This isn’t my home. Haven’t had a proper home since…This is just somewhere I’ll be resting my bones for a......more