By Geraldine McCaughrean
‘On the morning of his fourteenth birthday, Pepper had been awake for fully two minutes before realising it was the day he must die’. This sentence really drew me into this book.
When Pepper is born his aunt has a vision from St Constance telling her that Pepper will die on his 14th birthday. He spends this day with his family, except his father becausehe could not make it home in time. He goes out for a walk to the docks and when he arrives he asks the sailors for his father who he finds drunk in a hotel nearby. The story then follows him as he steals his father’s boat and he sets sail on a wave of adventures. He practically steals his father’s life.
I really enjoyed this book it had a great sense of writing the style of writing was very unique!
Even though I have said all these great things about the book I found this book quite intense at times so it was quite hard to read for long periods. Nevertheless I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Year 7
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