Izzy, Willy-Nilly

Cynthia Voigt
Published by Lions Teen Tracks
0-00-673377-8, £2.50

'I couldn't think of what to do with my life, what to want to do, because all the things I wanted to do required normal people - and I wasn't normal any more. I was abnormal.' When Izzy's drunken boyfriend wraps them and his car around a tree, the girl is the one whose scars are so obviously physical as well as mental - she loses a leg. Adjustment is slow and with it comes the need to take a complete stock of her relationships so far, especially with her so-called three best friends. Cynthia Voigt's sensitive, revealing account of Izzy's struggle to find re-acceptance in her family and social life and a self-acceptance of her disability makes this a satisfying and worthwhile read.

Reviewed in BfK No. 57 (July 1989) by David Bennett (DB)
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