SuitabookKnowing the Score
Anonymous
- Reading
- Check in as the blackmail and gossip develop, then invite your reader to consider what Amy learns about keeping secrets and meddling in other people’s lives.
- Themes
- Blackmail and pressure: A fellow WAG threatens Amy with blackmail, and Amy accepts the demands because she fears damaging her relationship with Damien. The threat is presented as a turn for the worse, and the plot connects it to Amy’s difficult choice.
- Gossip and secrets: Amy becomes caught up in celebrity gossip and scandal, while keeping secrets and meddling in other people’s lives. Amy comes to recognise that dealing with gossip involves more than scoring points.
- Worth knowing
- Blackmail is a central pressure on Amy, alongside secrets, celebrity scandal and gossip. These elements may be worth noting if coercion or social scrutiny is a concern for your reader.