The Ice Cream Girls - Dorothy Koomson

Name: The Ice Cream Girls
Author: Doroythy Koomson

No. of pages: 464

Cape: soft

Synopsis:

At only eighteen years of age, Poppy and Serena were the only witnesses to a tragic event. Amid heated public debate and scrutiny, the two glamorous teens were dubbed "The Ice Cream Girls" by the press and forced to go their separate ways and to lead very different lives.

Twenty years later, Poppy is keen to set the record straight about what really happened, while married mother-of-two Serena wants no one in her present to find out about her past. But some secrets will not stay buried - and if theirs is revealed, their lives will start to unravel all over again...

Gripping, throught-provoking and heart-warming, The Ice Cream Girls will make you wonder if you can ever truly know the people you love.

I think...

Without a doubt this was one of the best books I ever read (And don't even finished!!!)!

It tells the story of two teenagers of 15 years who have been seduced and deceived by an unscrupulous man for which they fell in love.

Blinded by the guise of a history teacher, Marcus lived as a pedophile with no one yet has noticed. Marcus Halnsley attracted his student Serena Gorringe for extracurricular classes until her fall for him the point of giving oneself, losing her virginity to him and suffered physical abuse from him.

Poppy also comes through in the middle, another 15 year old who Halnsley find in a park eating ice cream. Like with Serena, this insecure and helpless teenager is seduced by Marcus, that inventing excuses after excuses, ends up hanging with the two at the same time!

Problems arive when Marcus comes stabbed and tortured and the girls are accused of murder. Poppy is condemned, but vows to be innocent. Serena is spotless and vows to be innocent too.

It's life of the Ice Cream Girls, after nearly 30 years, that we live in "The Ice Cream Girls". How have followed their lives, how they have been changed by time and Poppy attempt to prove that, despite having spent all this time behind bars, is innocent...

This book talks especially about relationships: The relationship of the young among them, they relationship with Marcus, Serena's relationship with her ​​husband and two children, Poppy's with her parents, Serena's sisters who live complicated and troubled relationships... and even the relationship of each one with himself!

A book to be read!

Excerpt:

"It's all so fragile when you're like me. Almost nothing is permanent. Living on the brink of my past, at constant risk of falling, they can discover what we've been accused, the label that the public gave me, and come back to me wanting to try judge me for the same crime."

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