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Finding yourself in hospital, in a bed full of shattered glass, is traumatic. Coming to terms with multiple fractures and probable long-term difficulties is something else again - slow, painful, full of obstacles and questions with no clear answers. Anna is used to being athletic, popular, 'normal'. Now she feels the layers of her familiar self being peeled away; nothing is normal or easy. Can she pick up the pieces of her life? What part will Hayden and Luke play? And who, now, is Anna Duncan?

©1996 Wendy Orr (P)1999 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Difficult Situations Growing Up Literature & Fiction

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"Anna's pain, fear, and dissociation from her former self are rendered so convincingly that readers will close the book believing they have encountered a primary source on trauma." ( Kirkus Reviews)
"A gripping narrative, told with smarting honesty." ( School Library Journal)
"Provides a very realistic portrait of the physical and mental adjustments demanded by an accident." ( Midwest Book Review)
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