By: R A Spratt
Location: FIC SPR
Genre: Fiction, Mental Health
“I can learn anything and travel anywhere without leaving town. That is the magic of books. I can travel around the world, into space, back and forth in time. All through the power of reading.”
Funny, shocking and from bestselling author R. A. Spratt, a whip-smart take on Shakespearean moral dilemmas
Selby hates homework.
She would rather watch daytime television – anything to escape the tedium of school, her parents’ bookshop and small-town busybodies.
So Selby didn’t plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him.
This novel transports Selby, and the reader, into the cold and crime-ridden play itself. Here she meets heavy with grief, the young prince is overthinking and over everything. Selby can relate. But unlike Hamlet, Selby isn’t afraid of making decisions. In her world, Selby is used to feeling overlooked. But in the bloody, backstabbing world of Shakespeare, Selby’s good conscience and quiet courage might just save some lives . . . hopefully before Hamlet stabs one of her classmates
"I think that the idea was brilliant, and I had fun reading this. I am not the biggest fan of Hamlet, and I am not the biggest fan of classics in general, to be honest, but I think that this is a great way to make people interested in them, and “scholastic” reasons aside, it was a nice reading. It is also quite fast and short, so I think that all in all, it was well worth my time. And Selby is soooo worth meeting!" Sibil
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