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Review: FICTION: Into the drink: Annabel Pitcher finds this novel about teen alcoholism worthy but dull: My Name Is ... by Alastair Campbell 352pp, Hutchinson, pounds 18.99
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Review: FICTION: Into the drink: Annabel Pitcher finds this novel about teen alcoholism worthy but dull: My Name Is ... by Alastair Campbell 352pp, Hutchinson, pounds 18.99
2013
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It's a shame that this energy-sapping technique is used so often, as when the reader is privy to actual dialogue, the novel comes alive - vividly so, in the case of [Hannah]. When she talks about a day-long bender with a friend's mum, it's utterly convincing, brilliantly capturing the teenager's love-hate relationship with alcohol, from the heady moments of the first drink when \"a bar that felt half empty suddenly feels a lot more than half full\", to the humiliation of wetting the friend's bed. Throughout, it's the teenagers that Campbell does best, another high-point being the narrative of Sammy, Hannah's first boyfriend. Their barbed but flirtatious exchanges give us a glimpse of the type of writer [Campbell] could be, were he not so bogged down by his mission to educate the world about worthy issues. This may be a commendable life-aim, but it does not make for a commendable novel.
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