SuitabookHandle with Care
Louisa Reid
- Themes
- Pregnancy and reproductive decision-making: Ruby gives birth after not realising she was pregnant and feels unable to keep the baby. She eventually decides what she and her baby need.
- Secrecy and threatened friendship: Ruby hides the father’s identity because the truth threatens her closest friendship.
- Vulnerability and failures of protection: People and systems that should protect Ruby let her down. The novel centres on vulnerability and failures of protection.
- Agency and control: Ruby’s attempt to take control leads toward tragic consequences.
- Worth knowing
- Ruby unexpectedly gives birth after not realising she was pregnant and feels unable to keep the baby.
- The truth about the baby’s father threatens Ruby’s closest friendship.
- Ruby’s attempt to take control leads toward tragic consequences.