I suppose you're right about Stephen and Simon. I think the problem is that I fell in love with Stephen and wanted him to end up happier, but also that I saw a little too much of myself as a teenager "in love" for the first time in Cassandra. I'm pretty sure I have journal entries that read very much the same as hers after she "falls in love" with Simon.
I'm not sure what I was expecting from the book. I read it because my daughter (who is 5) is obsessed with Disney's 101 Dalmations right now and I got curious about Smith's other work. I know she wrote it because she was living in America and missed England, and having just recently visited England for the first time I miss it too, so I gave it a shot.
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I suppose you're right about Stephen and Simon. I think the problem is that I fell in love with Stephen and wanted him to end up happier, but also that I saw a little too much of myself as a teenager "in love" for the first time in Cassandra. I'm pretty sure I have journal entries that read very much the same as hers after she "falls in love" with Simon.
I'm not sure what I was expecting from the book. I read it because my daughter (who is 5) is obsessed with Disney's 101 Dalmations right now and I got curious about Smith's other work. I know she wrote it because she was living in America and missed England, and having just recently visited England for the first time I miss it too, so I gave it a shot.