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Original Title:	The Girl in the Mirror
ISBN:	0007299273 (ISBN13: 9780007299270)

The Girl in the Mirror

Cathy Glass

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 1763 Users | 132 Reviews

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Title	:	The Girl in the Mirror
Author	:	Cathy Glass
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Student Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	April 1st 2005 by Harper
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Sociology. Abuse. Autobiography. Memoir

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*Contains heavy spoilers*

Prior to reading 'The Girl in the Mirror' I had already read 3 of Cathy Glass' memoirs, and loved them all, finishing them in a few days. However, I think Glass should definitely stick to memoirs, as I found this novel disappointing and hard to get into. The plot structure itself makes for a perfectly good novel (but only if you don't mind graphic descriptions of abuse and have a strong stomach) but the writing made it extremely predictable. I'd guessed that Mandy was a victim of sexual abuse by the time I'd read the prologue, and then Glass patronises the reader further by dropping several huge hints, so by the time the truth comes out, it isn't overly surprising. The twists near the end were again, adequate, but certainly not altogether shocking and quite predictable (I guessed as soon as I learned that Jimmy was dead that it was because of suicide... but maybe that's just because it's how I would have written it as well!)

While Glass' writing style certainly makes for an easy read, I think it's far more suited to memoirs than it is novels. As the book went on I became increasingly annoyed by the lack of fluidity of the prose and her tendency to tell us every action or thought which Mandy encounters. For example:

"Five minutes later the train began to slow as the station approached. Mandy stood, then waited by the doors until the train stopped. The doors opened and she got out, her pulse quickening and her breath becoming fast and shallow. She looked the length of the platform and then followed the dozen or so passengers who were walking towards the exit barrier. She'd never used this station before; it was on a different network to the one she used when she visited her grandparents, twelve miles away. She fed her ticket into the turnstile and followed the signs to the ladies' WC."

This isn't the worst example, but it's just one of the badly structured paragraphs which frustrated me. Everyone knows how one leaves a station, so what's the need for a lengthy description of it? Another moan I have about her writing technique is that you find a cliché on every other page, and the dialogue is often unrealistic. People have an annoying tendency to call each other 'love' and sometimes I felt I was reading the same chapter several times over. I did find myself wanting to rush to the end, and not really for the right reasons. I wasn't engrossed by the ending, and I found the funeral scene unnecessary.

It's an ok book as far as plot and read-ability is concerned. I was just getting very annoyed with it by the end!

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I was a little bit worried before I started to read this book as rhe reviews I read were not great. Even though this isnt a true memoir like cathy glass normally does I still thought the story was very good and believable. Ok so you could guess something had happened to Mandy before its revealed in the story but I her true life stories you have speculations about what children have gone through. So I thought this story was very true to life and its a topic that cathy glass has experience about

I like books by Glass. I think she is an amazing person for reaching out and helping so many young people who are struggling. I thought this book was different than many of her other books. Many of her books deal with Glass caring for needed children. This book relives a painful experience of someone who was a victim at a young age and is shutting out the past. When she visits her grandfather which she hasn't done in ten years the memories slowly come back. I think the book would be interesting

At times the storytelling seems to get lost in the minutiae of daily life, but overall it's sometimes those very details that allow the reader to be with the girl in the mirror. A good capturing of what it must be like inside the mind of someone who has suffered a trauma but has no memory of it as the memory begins to return. Earth shattering.



This is the first Cathy Glass book I have read.It was obvious what the 'dark secret' was. I didn't particularly like any of the characters, even Mandy who was just downright annoying a lot of the time.Don't think i'll bother with any of her other books.

Even tho this us good, I prefer cathys other books about her as a foster carer

A true story worth the telling. But OMG where was the editor???? Example. 'She decided to eat some breakfast before leaving for the train. She got out the toaster, carton of juice and butter. When the toast popped up she spread a thin dab of butter. She ate watching out her bedsit window as the clouds rolled in.' ALL that happened here was that she woke, ate a quick breakfast and headed for the train station. Geez