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Cargando... The High Moments: 'The perfect heroine for our times' Sarra Manning (edición 2020)por Sara-Ella Ozbek (Autor)
Información de la obraThe High Moments por Sara-Ella Ozbek
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"New Year's Day is the ultimate cliche for Scarlett: hangover, check - feeling weepy, check - broken sense of self, check check check... She is in her twenties, stuck living at home in small-town Topsham with an academic mother who has no time for pep-talks or consolation. The one saving grace is that her friend, Billie, still works at the pub down the road, but even the pub is losing its appeal. Feeling desperate to do something with her life and with no real plan (but the mother of all hangovers), Scarlett picks up her stuff and moves to London. But moving isn't a miracle cure and she ends up facing exactly the same problems she was desperate to escape. In the search for "her path", Scarlett is offered an internship at a fashion agency. This might not be her dream job but her mother is disgusted. So she takes it. This is her first step to becoming something but it is also her first step to becoming someone else. Each terrible decision she makes leads to another and her life begins to spiral. But people are starting to know her; she is starting to become someone. And surely it's better to be someone even if it's someone you hate?"--Publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Scarlett hails from a small town in Devon. She longs to escape to London, get away from her mother, and become a fashion designer. Without any plan as to what she will do when she gets there, she goes to London and she manages to get herself a job at a model agency, dealing with the bookings with a view to becoming an agent herself.
From the off I wanted Scarlett to remember that being a model agent wasn't what she wanted to do. But I also knew that it was a starting block, a better than nothing situation. I struggled at times to take to Scarlett; she's young, she's inexperienced, she makes terrible decisions, she wants people to like her and tends to be a bit two-faced to achieve it. Instagram followers are more important to her than doing the right thing. And yet I could see that underneath all that she was vulnerable, in a strange new world of fashionistas, drugs and parties, being led astray whilst revelling in her newfound freedom and feeling flushed with success.
In all honesty, when I started this read I wasn't sure I was going to like it. I didn't feel like the target audience and didn't gel immediately with Scarlett. But as I read on I started to become absolutely caught up in her life (car crash that it seemed to be) and genuinely hoped for the best for her. I was also totally absorbed in the model agency world, about which the author writes from experience. I can categorically say that that world would never be for me but what a ride to follow Scarlett's initiation into the competitive and often shallow environment.
I really enjoyed Sara-Ella Ozbek's writing. She managed to make me feel sympathetic towards Scarlett whilst also disliking her behaviour for a fair amount of the story. Her other characters are sharp and jump off the page, and I was fully immersed in the model agency setting. This is a slice of life story about a young woman in her 20s who wants to make it but goes on a rather circuitous route to find herself. I thought it was an excellent debut from Ozbek which felt very current and very stylish. (