Natalie's parents move around managing small hotels, so she is
overjoyed when they decide to stay at The Palace. She befriends a
strange-looking girl, whose name is Tulip and whose behaviour is
eccentric. Natalie tries to disentangle herself from this dangerous
friendship, but knows that Tulip will win in the end. This
disturbing and thought-provoking book won the Whitbread Children's
Book and was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal. (12 yrs +)
(Kirkus UK)
'She's mad. There has to be something wrong with her. She's insane.'
Nobody wants Tulip in their gang. She skives off school, cheeks the teachers, and makes herself unpopular with her classmates by telling the most awful lies.
None of this matters to Natalie. Natalie finds Tulip exciting, and at first she doesn't care that other people are so upset and unnerved by Tulip's bizarre games like Stinking Mackerel and Road of Bones. It's funny to watch their reactions, and there's always the delicious fear that the two girls might be caught. But as the games become increasingly sinister and dangerous, Natalie realizes that Tulip is going too far. Much too far.
Natalie could try to change things. But deep inside she knows that, once crossed, Tulip won't rest until she's won the most dangerous game of all.
In this compelling story Anne Fine explores the dark side of a friendship bordering on obsession, and sensitively depicts one girl's gradual decline into hostility and violence.
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