SuitabookOne Whole and Perfect Day
Judith Clarke
- Reading
- Keep track of the different family members and their dilemmas as they appear. Pausing to note how one person’s concern connects with another may help make sense of the interwoven cast.
- Themes
- A family seen as peculiar: Lily calls her family peculiar, while the story links teenagers and grandparents through a range of dilemmas and a plan to bring the family together. The family’s differences are framed as part of a warm story about connection and ties between people, rather than as a reason to dismiss its members.
- Linked dilemmas and characters: The novel follows distinctive characters from teenagers to grandparents, whose different dilemmas lead from one to another and fit together. The linked structure makes the range of characters and how their predicaments connect a central feature of the reading experience.
- Worth knowing
- Lily’s brief encounter with Daniel is described through a woozy, fizzy bodily feeling. How might that unexpected sensation affect her idea of being sensible?