Love Lessons

By Jacqueline Wilson

Book Overview

Fourteen-year-old Prue and her sister Grace have been educated at home by their controlling, super-strict father all their lives. Forced to wear Mum's odd hand-made garments and forbidden from reading... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385608365
• ISBN13: 9780385608367
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Doubleday UK
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 7

Customer Reviews

A Lesson In Love Indeed

Jacqueline Wilson makes a spectacular return to form with her honeyed view of a taboo topic in her latest book, Love Lessons. The story revolves around a fourteen-year-old named Prudence who falls in love with her teacher - a story many, including myself, can relate to. The story is beautiful and well-written, and although many reviewers have slated the unseemly romance that blossoms between Prudence and Rax - claiming it 'preposterous', I think Ms Wilson handles it with care and without judgement... for the most part. While Prue is a perfect example of a teenage girl with her first borderline obsessive crush, I think Rax could have done with an extra dose of morals - I can accept the possibility for a teacher to fall for one of his pupils, but he fails to then be a respectable character in acting upon his feelings for Prue. Aside from that, Jacqueline Wilson has delivered one of her finest books to date, even if the reader has to stretch their realm of disbelief a wee bit to accept the essential plotline. As a girl who herself had a relationship with a teacher that went a little outside the boundaries, I know from whereof I speak. And what is the lesson that we learn from Lessons in Love? NOT that love conquers all, certainly - but that love conquers all of us, and that we cannot choose who it is that we love.