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Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At 17 she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever, or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie’s heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge. A deeply moving portrait of a girl in a world that owes her nothing and has taken so much, and the journey she undergoes to put herself back together.

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1 July 2022
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13 years and up
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14.6 x 2.8 x 13.4 cm
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'A haunting, beautiful, and necessary book that will stay with you long after you've read the last page.' -- Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything and The Sun is Also a Star

'Intimate and gritty … Glasgow mines the darkness and, ultimately, offers the glimmer of recovery.' -- Irish Times

'This sharp and beautiful portrait of seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis illuminates not only the anxiety of youth but the vulnerability and terror of life in general ... Girl in Pieces hurts my heart in the best way possible.' -- Amanda Coplin, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Orchardist

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bolinda/HarperCollins audio; Unabridged edition (1 July 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1460744292
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1460744291
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 13 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.6 x 2.8 x 13.4 cm

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Kathleen Glasgow is the New York Times bestselling author of GIRL IN PIECES, YOU'D BE HOME NOW, THE AGATHAS, and HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH THE DARK. Visit her at www.kathleenglasgowbooks.com, follow her on TikTok @kathleenglasgow, on Twitter @kathglasgow, or on Instagram @misskathleenglasgow. She lives in Arizona.

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Indianna C

This book!! must read

Reviewed in Australia on 2 April 2022

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I love this book so much, the way Kathleen portrayed the way self harm & addiction affects people was brilliant. It was a very real book stating the impacts that both self harm/addiction have on peoples lives, [very easy to connect with if you've been through the same trauma]. She showed this through the character Charlotte- Charlie. I definitely recommend reading this book, check TW, before hand though.

Reviewed in Australia on 30 September 2016

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I found 'Girl in Pieces' such a powerful, eye-opening story and I'm so glad that Kathleen Glasgow decided to write it. I think it's so important for us to hear more of these kinds of voices, to become more aware and develop a greater understanding of mental illness. Beautifully written, with real, gritty characters, 'Girl in Pieces' tells the story of main protagonist Charlotte Davis. Charlotte or Charlie is a young girl whose life seems to be breaking apart. As each heartbreaking, terrible thing happens to her, she seems to get a little bit smaller and feel a little bit more insignificant. It seems inevitable that nothing will change for her, but through her art and the kindness of friends Charlie is able to start putting herself back together.

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Impressive story

Reviewed in Australia on 21 February 2017

Charlie doesn't have anyone in the world. She's broken and her soul has shattered due to all of the horrible things she's been through. The pain often becomes unbearable and when she wants to make it stop for a while cutting is her only way out. Charlie has scars on her arms and legs, because she doesn't want to remember what happened to her father or the things an evil man has done to her when she was vulnerable and she also can't cope with what happened to her best friend Ellis, the girl who tried to end her life. Charlie's mother can't take care of her daughter and when after a long time on the streets Charlie finally ends up in a treatment center where they can do something for her, she has to leave because there's no money to pay for her stay. Charlie is on her own again. Will she be able to find a way to put the pieces of her life back together and make it whole again all by herself?

Girl in Pieces is an impressive emotional story. Charlie has known very little love in her life. Her childhood was unhappy, she lost the only friend she had and the boy she loved with all her heart didn't love her back. Charlie has to find a way to be more than just an invisible person who doesn't speak and that isn't easy. She cuts herself because she can't cope with the abundance of emotions that are constantly overwhelming her. Kathleen Glasgow describes her pain in a beautiful raw and realistic way. She knows what she's writing about and isn't afraid to show others what it's actually like. I found that incredibly brave and it made the book even more terrific and special for me.

Charlie is a sweet and talented girl. She's craving love, she wants to belong and she'd love to finally feel welcome somewhere. It's a sad situation and her despair radiates off the pages. It isn't easy to read about, but Kathleen Glasgow's amazing writing and skillful translation of feelings into words made it difficult for me to put Girl in Pieces down. Charlie tries to pick herself up, but she's quite naïve and hasn't seen much of the world and the people in it yet. She's only seventeen, so she still has a lot of living to do. I kept hoping the broken girl would get a chance to heal. Because of this I couldn't stop reading to find out if she'd actually get there.

Girl in Pieces is a book about big problems and tough situations. Charlie's issues resemble those of a lot of girls and I love that Kathleen Glasgow gives them a voice and makes her readers understand how and what drives someone to self hurt and mutilate. I was shocked by some parts of the book and I often had tears in my eyes while reading about Charlie's struggles. There's only one person who can change Charlie's life and better days will only come when she's ready to face this. Girl in Pieces is an incredible book, it's a strong thought-provoking story with a clear powerful message for everyone who feels broken in any kind of way.

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Reviewed in Australia on 18 October 2016

‘Girl in Pieces’ is the debut contemporary young adult novel by American author, Kathleen Glasgow.

I’d been hearing quite a lot of buzz about Kathleen Glasgow’s debut. Every blogger whose opinion I value was giving it 5-stars and warning that this was a book to break your heart and open your eyes, and now that I’m out the other side of it … they’re not wrong.

‘Girl in Pieces’ begins thus;

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LIKE A BABY HARP SEAL, I’M ALL WHITE. MY FOREARMS are thickly bandaged, heavy as clubs. My thighs are wrapped tightly, too; white gauze peeks out from the shorts Nurse Ava pulled from the lost and found box behind the nurses’ station.
Like an orphan, I came here with no clothes. Like an orphan, I was wrapped in a bedsheet and left on the lawn of Regions Hospital in the freezing sleet and snow, blood seeping through the flowered sheet.
The security guard who found me was bathed in menthol cigarettes and the flat stink of machine coffee. There was a curly forest of white hair inside his nostrils.
He said, “Holy Mother of God, girl, what’s been done to you?”
My mother didn’t come to claim me.
But: I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth.
That mattered to me, their accidental beauty. The last thing I thought I might see before I died on the cold, wet grass.
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And with an opening that raw and beautiful, I was hooked.

The girl lying on the cold, wet grass is 17-year-old Charlie Davis, whose father committed suicide, her abusive mother kicked her out of home and a tragedy has befallen her best friend – a tragedy Charlie seems hell-bent on repeating for herself. Charlie is institutionalised, and in diary-entry style the book takes us through her group therapy and release.

The comparison to Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir hit 'Girl, Interrupted' (which was adapted into an Angelina Jolie Oscar-winning movie) is absolutely spot-on, but with a perhaps more satisfying examination of why Charlie is existing on the fringe. There’s something generally about ‘Girl in Pieces’ which feels at once 90s retro, but with unflinching YA modernity. Glasgow’s book reminded me of landmark YA fiction – 1971’s 'Go Ask Alice' or 'Cut' by Patricia McCormick, and of Australian YA such as 'Diary of a Street Kid' by Margaret Clark and the works of Scott Monk. It reminds me of the time when authors were first writing about the things teens weren’t supposed to be reading, let alone living … homelessness and drug use, self-harm and sexualisation.

Something about Glasgow’s writing also reminds me of Janet Fitch (and again that 90s feel, for her 1999 'White Oleander' in particular) mixed with a little 'How the Light Gets In' by M.J. Hyland – it’s in the raw rhythm and cadence, the look-you-dead-in-the-eye grit on the page and for how these books share female characters who envision a single person can save them, but they eventually realise they need to save themselves and fast.

And yet it’s frustrating for me to keep describing Glasgow in terms of who she sounds like and reminds me of, because Girl in Pieces deserves praise for being utterly unique too, and Glasgow’s voice being a booming debut … it’s just, I think, that to read a first novel that’s this accomplished and assured has me comparing her to well-known writers and coming up baffled that she doesn’t yet have a backlist I can trawl through, a previous book to dive right into. How can a debut be this damn good? Where has Kathleen Glasgow been hiding all this time?!

This book hurts, but it’s what I call a ‘necessary read’ – for I feel better for having known Charlie Davis, and reading Kathleen Glasgow for the first (but surely not the last) time. This one is a favourite of the year, for me.

Reviewed in Australia on 18 March 2017

So enjoyable and fun and yet dark mysterious and sad such a story of strength girl power longing to be loved
Couldn't put it down

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Tragically beautiful but not for young teens

Reviewed in Australia on 11 January 2017

Content best suited to young adult,
very beautiful , I dare you to read it and not fall in love with the characters.

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Jasmin Webb-Oriogun

Insightful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2018

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This book has now become my favourite book. Not because it's a happy book by any means but oh my it is full of raw truths about dealing with issues such as self harm.
It reads so well and not one part seems to rediculous. I could truly feel the feelings of Charlotte throughout the book
Its a hard read I suffer with depression and a long list of things as well this book can be a trigger so make sure you are in a good head space before you decide to read it Espically if you are a self harmer Espically if you're a cutter.
The book had me laughing at points and crying at others. One of the saddest parts of the books were the authors notes. I normally never read them for some reason I did this time powerfil.
So if u know anyone in your life suffering with depression of some sort this is a fantastic and insightful well written book. Give u a clearer understanding.
Well deserved 5 stars

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Alyssia Cooke

Realistic and bleak but choppy style makes it less than fleshed out

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 November 2019

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Should really be 3.5 stars, but it's not quite enough to make me round it up. A book about self harm should be right up my street - I've been there for the better part of twenty years. It's a topic very close to home. And Glasgow certainly covers it realistically. This is bleak and dark and distinctly depressing; but it's realistic. It also took me an almighty amount of time to get through.

Part of the reason was certainly the writing style - short, choppy paragraph chapters don't really work for me. I want a little more meat on the bones. Part of it though was despite the author trying to cover a huge range of issues - abuse, suicide, self harm, homelessness, drugs, addiction in one package - it doesn't go anywhere fast. It starts well, the hospitalisation really caught me. But somewhere in the middle it flounders and then it takes another hundred pages to get interesting again.

That said, I applaud the author for writing this. It is honest and raw and that's something we could do with more of in relation to mental health. She certainly pulled me along with her characters when the book got going, and her writing is powerful and intense. Others have commented that the secondary characters aren't fleshed out, but actually I think that's part of the realism. When you are struggling that much just to survive, you are selfish and self focussed. Each day is about you, not about the struggles going on around you. Is that right? No. Healthy? No. But it's definitely true.

I'd recommend this book to anyone with a passing interest in mental health. It wasn't really to my taste, but that doesn't mean I can't appreciate what the author has done.

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Melissa Ross

It’s a difficult read but was worth it in the end

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2021

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The first section of the book is a tad slow and kind of confusing because there is no clear background story for the main character (Charlie) and it keeps jumping into the past but only very briefly with little detail or explanation. This made it hard to get into but also made me want to find out what really happened to Charlie.

Once I got into this book I did really enjoy the way it was written and became invested in Charlie’s life, but to be honest I would probably refrain from recommending this book to a friend just because of how hard it is to read because there are so many heavy topics (suicide, self harm, drug addiction, etc) which are often discussed in depth.

The end of the book could not have brought everything together in a better way but I honestly did almost give up reading at around 3/4 of the way through because of how brutal and upsetting the story line got.

If you have the time and aren’t too sensitive to any of the topics mentioned before then I would say to give it a try because these are very real and important issues to read about and discuss but just don’t expect it to be an easy read because it’s not.

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Trinity

A hard read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2021

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This book would be a very difficult read for anyone who has struggled with past mental health issues. However, I feel it is necessary. Overall, the book was somewhat fast paced and beautifully written. I personally loved the main character, Charlie, although I feel as though some of the other characters deserved a more detailed backstory. I also wish that the ending had given us an insight into what happened next and not end on such a cliffhanger.
I'd recommend this book, but with a trigger warning to anyone who is sensitive around these difficult subjects. I've given it 4 stars because although there wasn't anything I overly disliked, there were a few plot holes I feel could've been covered better.

5 people found this helpful

Sonia

Outstanding and heart breaking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 May 2022

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This book was sad and great. It is such well written, from the point of view of an unstable teenage girl, that she seems so real she could jump out of the page at any time.

I cam by this book while researching the self-harm topic for a book I am writing. I have never had contact with people with this problems, so I want to make sure I am sensible and realistic with the matter.

This is a book of fiction, and the characters aren't real, but the issues treated here are. The feelings, the thinking the problems... my heart bled for Charlie, specially the first third of the book.

Such beautiful book to give a voice to the people who have suffered or know someone who went through this. Or to the others like me, to understand the problem better.

It must have been very hard to write this book, so I raise my hat to th writer, and I wish her that she is in a better place than she had been, and that finding your voice in any type of art, like writing, is one of the most beautiful things in the world. You are a great writer. Great with words. Better at transmitting feelings and make the readers feel them.

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