SuitabookTeenage pregnancy and choice
Mel becomes pregnant, while both families have views about abortion and Northern Ireland’s law forms part of the conflict.
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Kelly McCaughrain - Author
This is a relationship-led story that moves from romance into pregnancy, competing beliefs and practical responsibility. Its Belfast setting gives the characters’ abortion-related conflict a specific legal and social context, while humour remains present alongside loneliness.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a relationship-led story that moves from romance into pregnancy, competing beliefs and practical responsibility. Its Belfast setting gives the characters’ abortion-related conflict a specific legal and social context, while humour remains present alongside loneliness.
Mel becomes pregnant, while both families have views about abortion and Northern Ireland’s law forms part of the conflict.
Mel has strictly religious, overbearing parents, while Sid has a volatile relationship with his single mother; both families influence the central conflict.
Sid considers how to provide for a child, takes odd jobs and struggles with his identity as a singer-songwriter, while Mel feels alone with the pregnancy.
Prepare for emotionally difficult material concerning teenage pregnancy, abortion, family conflict, isolation and uncertainty about the future.
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