REVIEW: Jill Makes Good

[feather_ghyll]

Jill Makes Good: Elizabeth Tugwell, Nelson

Of course, such a title begs you to decide whether the author has made good with this book.

Fourteen year old Jill Ross is headed for Cornwall at the start of the story,

Comments

Interesting review

[anonymous]

Thanks for that. Your points about her focussing on the wrong character are interesting.

Re: Interesting review

[feather_ghyll]

Thanks for commenting! Maybe as the author wrote the story, the older characters became more interesting to her than Jill, who she'd intended to write about - I don't know if the title came first, but it makes sense that a fourteen-year-old heroine would be the central figure. However, it was a shame that Tugwell didn't recognise where her focus was shifting (mainly to Vivien) and either correct that by writing more about Jill's development, so that the reader cared that she'd 'made good', or let it be Vivien's story.