Pages:
372
Publisher:
Corgi
Release
Date: 4th
June 2015
Edition:
UK paperback,
review copy
My
name is Darcy.
I
see the extraordinary in the everyday and the wonder in the wold around me.
This is my fourth book and I’m facing some of life’s biggest most important
questions.
Will
my horrid strict witchy granny make my life a misery for ever?
Will
Pork the cat’s real owner turn up and take him away?
Will
I survive wearing the world’s most TERRIBLE pyjamas to the school sleepover?
I was so happy when Darcy’s
fourth adventure popped through my letterbox that I read it that very
afternoon. And I loved Oh, Obviously.
Darcy’s drama of the moment is
the impending school sleepover turned talent contest for charity. And the worst
thing? She has no suitable pyjamas! Hers are all covered in crazy patterns and
slogans and they’re just so loud. Darcy has a bit of a crisis about how bright
and clashing her wardrobe comes across to others: to her there’s nothing better
than clashing her favourite colours and the best patterns and wearing her
personality on her body, but she’s beginning to have her doubts. There must be
so many girls her age that get their personality knocked out of them by fears
like this – I’m so glad that Darcy is surrounded by people who love her and are
just as mad.
I love how Laura Dockrill manages
to instil important messages about being yourself and inner strength and
dealing with death and grief with such aplomb. It’s subtle and worked into
Darcy’s own realisations effortlessly. Everyone could learn a lesson or two from
Darcy Burdock. Even though she has a few moments when the Angrosaurus rears its
head, she channels her feelings and the events in her daily life into wonderful
stories are weaved into the narrative. I wish I thought like her!
I could read about Darcy and her
stories for ever and never get bored. Bring on book five!
Thanks to RHCP for the review
copy!
Sophie
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