Shacked Up Book

There's nothing like having your own space, as Rich, the hero of Shacked Up quickly discovers when an unexpected guest invades his newly found refuge. Pretty soon after that I find myself really needing to leave the flat. I've got this vague intention of going into college, but leaving the flat is the main thing. I'm feeling inadequate and angry both at the same time and I don't know how to deal with it. There's Barb being all wonderful and supportive, and there's Bonny being all wonderful and determined and strong, and they're both thinking wonderful brave new thoughts about the future, and all I can do is feel pissed off someone else is in my flat. That's the way I see it. My flat. The sequel to Hard Cash, Shacked Up again features the character of Rich, a dreamer who has luckily been saved from drifting too far by his considerable artistic talent. After deciding that he has to leave home, Rich is given a flat to move into by kindly friends Nick and Barb and Rich relaxes into his own space and begins to explore his independence. That is until he's joined by fellow escapee Bonny, trying to make the break from her overbearing mother Tigger. Rich's situation isn't helped by his infatuation with Portia, the remote, selfish, impossible beauty, who is the epitome of the irresistible but unsuitable object of lust. As a 17-year old guy, Rich knows that he is letting sex cloud his judgment, but so be it. That is until he realises that he has begun to really care about someone else. Kate Cann has an incredibly readable style which makes the chapters fly by well before you want them to and she populates her novels with fallible characters who are very easy to relate to. Featuring some very realistic and recognisable teenage relationships, the couples, the infatuated and the rejected, Shacked Up is a great novel about finding your own two feet and knowing who to lean on when you have to. --Rachel Ediss Kate Cann, is the author of the tremendously successful Coll and Art trilogy, Diving In, In the Deep End and Sink or Swim.Read More