Product Description

Door and her twin sister get along - just about. But Door has
misgivings. She is tall and thin like a beanpole, her sister is petite and
beautiful. How on earth can they be family? Door starts to believe she is
from another planet - or else the rest of the family is from outer space.
Read the stirring saga of the ungainly sibling who suddenly turns into a
beautiful swan - and the incredible secret of her birth!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1091065 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-12
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 244 pages

From the Author
"Crushed" is an illustrated teen fiction novel for (sophisticated) 12 year olds -15 year olds. The whole family should enjoy it because it's funny. Curt Eiworth of Eiworth Publishing asked me if I could ask one of my famous artist friends to illustrate the books, but I asked him if I could do the drawings. They came out quirky and individual.

From the Back Cover
Door and her twin sister get along - just about. But Door has
misgivings. She is tall and thin like a beanpole, her sister is petite and
beautiful. How on earth can they be family? Door starts to believe she is
from another planet - or else the rest of the family is from outer space.
Read the stirring saga of the ungainly sibling who suddenly turns into a
beautiful swan - and the incredible secret of her birth!

About the Author
Frances Lynn was born in London and grew up in Notting Hill
Gate. She was educated at Malvern Girls' College. Her first job was at the
BBC, but left after a year to travel to San Francisco. When she returned to
London, she became Britain's bitchiest columnist on the now defunct Ritz
Newspaper, simultaneously doing freelance work for Fleet Street papers and
the London glossies.

Frances Lynn now lives in central London, enjoying life as a professional
writer and author.

Customer Reviews

Fairy tale twins cast their spell...
I'm impressed. I'm clearly not the target audience for this book, but nonetheless I found it very readable. The prose has a simple, almost fairy-tale quality to it and the sibling rivalry is nicely sketched. The author has gone on record as thinking of herself as more of a scriptwriter, but the novel doesn't read like that - it reads like the work of a novelist.

An assured first children's novel.
Once in a while you read a book that you wouldn't normally choose, and get blown away. This is what happened to me on reading Crushed. It's a fairy tale that Grimm would have been proud to have written. Dark things happen in an otherwise familiar world. The tight use of language - the narrator's voice is as Grimm as the characters - takes us inside the darkness of the children's minds as they try to cope with their dysfunctional family and their teenage angst. The plot unfolds in an otherwise apparently uncontrolled stream of consciousness, leaving one wondering if the author's words are leading events, or events leading the author. Altogether and assured and fascinating debut novel.

An assured first children's novel.
Once in a while you read a book that you wouldn't normally choose, and get blown away. This is what happened to me on reading Crushed. It's a fairy tale that Grimm would have been proud to have written. Dark things happen in an otherwise familiar world. The tight use of language - the narrator's voice is as Grimm as the characters - takes us inside the darkness of the children's minds as they try to cope with their dysfunctional family and their teenage angst. The plot unfolds in an otherwise apparently uncontrolled stream of consciousness, leaving one wondering if the author's words are leading events, or events leading the author. Altogether and assured and fascinating debut novel.