Glory

Rating:
Summary: Must read if you are a responsible parent
Review: Sarah speaks from the inside of a muddled teenager's head. And which teenager is not muddled? Every parent, however confident must read this book - it will open up their minds and help them understand their children. If you think you know your kid - this book will expose the reality- you really don't.

Rating:
Summary: Glory by Sarah Brill
Review: The following book review appeared in the Melbourne Sunday Age
on June 2nd,
2002, written by Lucy Sussex:

Fiction: GLORY, by Sarah Brill, Publisher Spinifex
"Youthful suicide, anorexia and drug abuse are dangerous topics
for the
novelist to handle.  The gatekeepers of younger reading are
nervous about
them, and they are hard to write about successfully.  Playwright
Sarah
Brill boldly and successfully tackles all three in this first
novel.
A young girl descends into an abyss in part of her own making,
and her
loving, if limited, family struggle to understand and cope.
Presenting the
anorexic viewpoint can mire the reader in claustrophobic
self-absorption,
which unfortunately goes with the disease.  However, Brill
leavens her mix
by allowing different characters their say.  There is much here
that could
be mawkish, but is avoided by Brill's stark, clear style.  A
writer to
watch."