Skin Deep
By: Hayley Lawrence
Genre: Identity, beauty and society
Scarlett was gifted with beauty. But beauty can be taken in a day, in a single moment, by one car fire.
Now permanently disfigured, Scarlett has become a smudge in her perfect world. She can see only one acceptable solution: to escape the modern world for Matilda Mountain, which is desolate, isolated, forlorn. Perfect.
But mountains are not always as lonely as they appear. And unexpected friendships can be found in the wilderness. Friendships that challenge her ideas about perfection and her place in the world.
Can Scarlett break free from the confines of her beauty-obsessed culture to discover who she is beyond the layers of her skin?
""And sometimes the thing that breaks you down is the very same thing that rebuilds you."
'Skin deep' is a beautiful book with such an important message. Hayley Lawrence has writing style that almost seems to flow onto the page. The words themselves are beautifully lyrical, but not in a way that makes them hard to read. There's a brutal, yet beautiful honesty to the way in which Scarlett experiences and deals with her grief that makes this book so special. The characters are well developed throughout the story and loveable despite their realistic flaws. The powerful message of 'Skin Deep' is one that we all need to hear, one that Hayley Lawrence emphasises in a beautiful, magical and sincere novel." Callie
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