Love, Shelley is a story about a girl who is growing up through her troublesome teens and she is dealing with all the issues and problems that teenagers have to go through.

But no-one has to experience your own mum verbally abusing you every time you walk through the door, or no-one has to go through bullying at school because you are a new pupil. This is what Shelley experiences every single day, of every single month.

Shelley feels like she can't talk to anyone about her problems or her issues because her Dad has his own family now but seems to have no time for her, her mum is a drunk and her little brother wouldn't understand - so she writes to Ziggy - her favourite singer - a letter a month for one year.

Although he is very busy he finds the time to reply to her letters with a postcard and she is very happy and Ziggy is very touched by what she writes to him. But at the end of the book - Ziggy does not write another postcard, but a letter explaining how grateful he is that he could share Shelley's experiences and when Shelley receives it she is overwhelmed because she then knew that Ziggy really did read her letters.

This book was really intriguing and interesting because it wanted you to read page after page straight away and it took you on the journey of Shelley through her up and downs - like an emotional rollercoaster.

So I would describe this book as gripping and hard to put down. Shelley's is a truthful and turbulent story about a troubled and traumatic teenage girl growing up with many teenage related problems but she feels like she has no-one to turn to and that no-one is listening, but this story shows that there is always someone listening, whoever that might be.

Amy McHale

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