Looking for JJ - Anne Cassidy

Looking for JJ is an excellent novel for young adults. It tell Alice Tully's story as she settles into life after being released from prison. She has been given a new identity and hopes to start a new life. At the start of the book this seems possible; she has a place at university and a loving, if slightly possessive, boyfriend, but things will never be easy for Alice Tully. In a series of flashbacks her crime is revealed - when she was only ten she murdered her best friend. In this novel Anne Cassidy examines several themes. The friendship between the young girls is shown to be a battleground, with a power struggle at the centre. The different sets of ...

Looking for JJ is the gripping novel by Anne Cassidy, which grips the imagination of the reader from page 1. The plot line follows Alice Tully, a young woman leading a normal life, but with a terrible past. Only three people know she was once the child murderer by the name of Jennifer Jones. But soon, her cover will be blown as the past begins to creep up on her. We find out what happened that day, when Jennifer Jones murdered her best friend and buried her alive, and we discover just how difficult her life has been: both as Alice Tully, and JJ. The plot is dark and chilling, and full of suspense. I really enjoyed the book and will read it again in ...

Looking for JJ, looking for a new life, looking for a new start where no one knows her past, or her background, she’s changed; she doesn’t know what overcame her to kill her. “Three children walked away from the cottages on the edge of town towards Berwick waters. Later that day, only two of them come back…” Jennifer Jones has been in prison for the last six years for murdering a girl who was bossy, and b***hy. Jennifer didn’t mean to, she remembers everything, and has been in deep guilt for the past years. She doesn’t need papers, or prison to make her feel the guilt of it all, she already has it lumbered upon her back. That one spring day, where ...