They say that the second novel is always the most difficult. Even Kipling had problems; The Light That Failed is probably his least known novel. So when Marina told me that Jenny Valentine was working on her second novel, after all the acclaim for the first, there was some speculation about what it would be about.
"I suppose it'll start where the last one ended," was Marina's opinion at the time.
Well, Broken Soup is out now, and is quite different from Finding Violet Park - and it's already been shortlisted for the Waterstone's Childrens Book award. In fact, I've seen both books mentioned favourably in the comments on the Daily Telegraph website, after the newspaper printed a list of 100 books that children should read. Broken Soup is about a teenage girl's experience of loss when her brother dies, and it looks set to garner as much acclaim as the first novel.
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