The mindless rambling of yet another Sophie

Fallon being a cutie "They always say it's weird watching it back." That was what my mother said to me when I found the video of my old dog in the snow. I hadn't heard that before but I could attest to its truth. Calling her my old dog is a strange phrase too. She was old. She was my dog. She was literally my old dog but now that has new meaning. Now she is the old dog in comparison to our new dogs. Her name was Fallon. I've said it before but I'll say it again. Fallon. She had her mother's name. We liked it so we used it. I couldn't say whether she had her mother's eyes but what I do remember is her mother was missing one eye. Her dad hung over the gate to greet us when we got her. His tongue hung out of his mouth to the side and in years to come we found that she did the same. Her paper says her name was 'Spot of bother' because of a birthmark on her nose and her boisterous behaviour. It was a pretty accurate name. When ...

David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth - David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal - to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in Year 11 is definitely not part of that plan. When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long . . . If a book has an interesting cover I will swarm to it like a moth to a flame. I love the look of the cover and how it so simply conveys the topics within the book. Pretty cover a side I had passed 'the art of being normal' a few times whilst wasting time in a Waterstone's and before that had heard the title in a book haul on YouTube. Every time I saw the book I put it off because either I had already bought a fai...