Judith "Jude" Killen, Kitty's younger sister.Rosalind "Rosie" Killen, Kitty's mother, a nurse.
Kitty Killen, a Scottish schoolgirl, the narrator.The story is told in a cloakroom cupboard during one morning, with occasional interruptions from Liz and Mrs Lupey. "Goggle-Eyes"' is the nickname Kitty gives Gerald, because of the way he stares ("goggles") at Kitty's mother. Kitty soon realises that Helen dislikes the man her mother is going to marry, so she tells her the story of how she first loathed Gerald, her mother's boyfriend, and how she gradually got used to him, despite his anti- CND views. When Helen runs out of the classroom in distress, Mrs Lupey sends Kitty after her, despite the two not being particular friends. It is set in Scotland in the 1980s, when anti-nuclear protests were prominent in the news. The story is told in the first person, by Kitty Killen. Little, Brown published a US edition under its Joy Street Books imprint in 1989, entitled My War with Goggle-Eyes. Goggle-Eyes was adapted for television by the BBC in 1993. Six books have won both awards in 45 years through 2011. She also won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a similar award that authors may not win twice. In the frame story, set in a Scottish day school, that girl Kitty tells her friend Helen about hating her mother's boyfriend.įine won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author. It features a girl who hates her mother's boyfriend, she thinks. Goggle-Eyes, or My War with Goggle-Eyes in the US, is a children's novel by Anne Fine, published by Hamilton in 1989.
0 kommentar(er)
