Скачать или смотреть Goggle-Eyes by Anne Fine | Book Summary

This novel, which won both the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal, follows the narrator, Kitty Killin, telling her story to Helly Johnston in a cupboard at school. Kitty’s story focuses on her experience with her mother's new boyfriend, Gerald Faulkner, whom Kitty refers to as "Goggle-eyes". Kitty begins telling her story after her parents’ divorce and her mother (Rosalind/Rosie) began dating Goggle-eyes. Kitty reveals Gerald's awkward and critical nature, such as insisting on formal names like Judith instead of Jude, and criticizing their household’s "disgusting" organization. Kitty recalls him making controversial statements, such as being "in favour of food mountains" to a shy agrarian economist. Kitty’s stories ultimately cheer Helly up, underscoring that "stories and books help" with living.