SuitabookBelonging without concealment
Frankie has visible bolts and seams, is encouraged to cover them and wants humans and RADs to live in harmony.
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Lisi Harrison - Author
A playful school fantasy about two girls navigating secrets, appearance, friendship and belonging. Frankie’s visible difference and wish to live openly contrast with Melody’s uncertainty about whether changed looks affect how others treat her.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceA playful school fantasy about two girls navigating secrets, appearance, friendship and belonging. Frankie’s visible difference and wish to live openly contrast with Melody’s uncertainty about whether changed looks affect how others treat her.
Frankie has visible bolts and seams, is encouraged to cover them and wants humans and RADs to live in harmony.
Melody has cosmetic surgery arranged by her father and wonders whether people respond to her changed appearance rather than to who she is.
Melody and Frankie meet as new students while Frankie keeps her identity secret and rumours unsettle the relationship between normies and RADs.
Expect monster imagery, rumours of monsters stalking school halls, family secrecy, appearance-related distress, crushes and complicated romantic entanglements. The tone is described as humorous and light, but individual reactions to these elements may differ.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: some draft conclusions still depend on unresolved evidence.
Anything not established here remains open; it is not being treated as absent or safe.