She Knows Everything About Us

She Knows Everything About Us

Kajsa Gordan

Original Title
Hon vet allt om oss
Published
Rabén & Sjögren, 2020
Genre
Fiction 9-12
Pages
235
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She Knows Everything About Us

Kajsa Gordan

”Tell me”, Corinne said again. ”It usually feels better when you tell someone.”

When Corinne is about to start 7th grade she sees her chance to change schools and start over. Become herself again, and not Corinne with the dead mother. No one will find out what is going on
with her.

In a part of the school, closed-off for renovation, Corinne and her friends one day discover the school counselor’s abandoned room. What starts like a game when Corinne sits down in the counselor’s chair soon turns into something else. There is something about the room – a mood, the atmosphere. One by one, her fellow classmates come to reveal their innermost secrets to Corinne. And she listens. Because, if you are the one helping others, you don’t have to think about your own sadness.

 

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Press voices
"This depiction of a group of newly-minted teenagers is charged and intimate." – Göteborgs-Posten

"A captivating and thought-provoking novel, and great to read in school. It offers many starting points for discussion." – Skånska Dagbladet

"It is indescribably captivating to follow both the inner and outer progress of the kids in the group taken to the basement, to the Room, to have room-time, as it will come to be called, with Corinne.... There are really no plights systematically left out.... But Gordon handles it at a bearable level—easy to take to, lots to think about, and done in a way that maintains suspense constantly throughout the book." – Göteborgs-Posten