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Broken Soup
''Broken Soup'' is a children's novel by Jenny Valentine, published in 2008.
It was shortlisted for the 2008 Waterstone's Children's Book Prize and the 2008 Costa Book Children's Book Award,〔(Waterstone's Children's Book Prize )〕〔(Costa Book Awards )〕 and longlisted for the 2008 Booktrust Teenage Prize.〔(Booktrust Teenage Prize )〕 It has also been longlisted for the 2009 Manchester Book Award and nominated for the 2009 Carnegie Medal.〔(Manchester Book Award )〕〔(The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards )〕
''The Daily Telegraph'' described the book as "a gripping, humorous story". It was given two separate reviews by ''The Times'': Nicolette Jones called it "a life-affirming, witty, romantic read", while Amanda Craig said that Rowan is "a heroine you warm to because of her perceptiveness and total lack of self-pity in a devastating situation." Eleanor Updale, writing in ''The Guardian'', proclaimed it to be "one of this year's unmissable reads", adding that "the writing moves with an athletic spring."
==Plot==
As teenager, Rowan, copes with the death of her older brother, she takes on a lot responsibilities. After her father leaves, abandoning the family, and her mother slips into a depression, Rowan must take care of her little sister, Stroma, as well as the house. Through the pain of losing her older brother and through the stress of inheriting these new responsibilities, Rowan becomes closer to a classmate of hers and discovers just how little she knew about her older brother (Contemporary Authors Online, 2009). This new relationship with Harper, begins when he hands Rowan a negative of a photograph that he claimed she had dropped. Although Rowan knows that the photo negative is not hers, she is too preoccupied with her troubled home life and takes it anyway without thinking it would lead her to a different life. Rowan also develops a relationship with a girl, Bee, who saw Harper hand Rowan the negative and questioned her about it (Jones, 2008). Bee’s relationship with Rowan is more complicated than the reader would originally guess. A plot twist reveals a few secrets about Bee involving Rowan’s dead brother, Jack, as they two work together to develop the negative and solve the mystery. Rowan finds out that Bee’s 2-year-old brother is actually a child Bee had with Jack (Patti). Rowan begins to rely heavily on Bee and Harper when dealing with her rough home life, especially when her mom tries to commit suicide (Kirkus, 2009). The novel‘s theme, set my Jenny Valentine, is “developing”. The book follows Rowan as she develops new relationships and a new family (Kraus, 2009)
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