If I Was Your Girl

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If I Was Your Girl is written mostly in the present day, but there are a number of scenes from back when Amanda was Andrew, showing us what her life was like before, the abuse she had to suffer, the hopelessness she felt, the certainty that no-one, including her parents, would want her if they knew the truth.

Extent: 304 pages Dimensions: 201 x 141mm Paperback ISBN: 9781474923835 Accelerated Reader Book Level: 5. And even for myself, a bisexual woman who has known several trans individuals personally, I still feel underexposed to their experiences. It is possible that, given their ages, I didn’t hold on to the idea that they’d stay together forever. Here you’ll find anything and everything friendship, bookish and gay, with maybe some writing and film reviews thrown in. Later in the evening, she is confronted in the bathroom by a drunk Bee who comes on to her aggressively.She decides to just lay low and try to keep her secrets away from Anna but doesn’t want to cause waves with the rest of the friend group.

And Bee and Amanda cannot be the only two students taking art from this teacher in the whole school.

Amanda Hardy has moved in with her father to start a new life at a new school, after years of bullying and abuse. If I Was Your Girl starts with our young protagonist, Amanda, moving to a new town to live with her dad and attend a new school. Early into this novel you just know it’s a matter of time before things blow up in Amanda’s face, and reading how things unfold is like watching a bomb detonate. The story jumps back and forth between Amanda now, with some flashbacks to when she was a child and then the incidents leading up to her transition.