Saving Phoebe Murrow

Author/Guide: Herta Feely

Why a Booktrail?

2000s: Every mother of teenagers should read this.

ISBN: 978-1785770340
Genre: Fiction, Psychological

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What you need to know before your trail

Isabel Murrow is precariously balancing her career and her family. Hard-working and caring, worried but supportive, all Isobel wants, in a perilous world of bullies and temptations, is to keep her daughter Phoebe safe.

Phoebe has just attempted suicide. She says it is Isabel’s fault.

Saving Phoebe Murrow is a timely tale about an age-old problem – how best to raise our children, and how far to go in keeping them from harm. Set amidst the complicated web of relationships at the school gate, it tells a story of miscommunication and malice, drugs and Facebook, prejudice and revenge.

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Set in Washington DC the trail here is the dark underbelly of the internet

This book places you right at the heart of what it means to be a teenager today. Think back to when you were a teenager and the problems and concerns you had then. And then magnify them tenfold and you are almost in the world in which Phoebe finds herself.

In school, Phoebe is surrounded by bitchy, cruel girls who would rather scowl at you then smile. If they were animals ( well….), they’d be peeing on you right now and marking their territory. Bullying might start at school, but in the early of the internet age, it doesn’t stop at the school gate. If follows you home, gets inside your head, your thoughts, your waking and sleeping moments. Being bullied in the cyber world is depicted as a horrific nightmare from which there is no escape. Teenagers are stuck to their phones and in awe of their peers. Peer pressure and the need to fit in are their world so when this world is infiltrated by the bad guys, they hide in the cyber shadows and the anonymity protects the bullies and imprisons the victims.

Social Media

Which teenager is not stuck to their phone and who doesn’t live their live through Facebook. Due to the detail in which the author writes -you can get a good sense of how this social media allure works. How messages ping to alert you to news, how news alerts appear on FB, how the little light at the right hand side of the screen shows you which of your friends is currently on line…A good guide to parents and those who might not be as up on social media as they might want to be..