Objects in Mirror

by Tudor Robins

Overview

Starving, starving ... Grace is always starving these days.

But Grace is also strong, and determined, and skinny. For the first time ever Grace is as thin as she wants to be - nearly - and there's no way she's giving that up.

Except, what if she has to give up other things to be able to keep wearing her new "skinny" breeches?

What if it comes down to a choice between all the horses she loves - Sprite, the ferocious jumper, and Iowa, the sweet greenie, and Whinny, the abused but tough mare - and the numbers on the scale, the numbers on food labels, the numbers always running through her head?

Grace knows what her stepmother, Annabelle, wants her to decide. She knows what Matt - gorgeous, amazing Matt - wants her to do. She knows what the doctors think.

But she also knows nobody else can make this decision for her. And sometimes she's not even sure if she's got the strength to do it.

There is danger in living with anorexia, and there is also hope. Objects in Mirror is a truthful exploration of these extremes and of the struggles that lie between them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780995888777
Publisher:	South Shore Publications
Publication date:	05/31/2018
Series:	Stonegate , #1
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.61(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Tudor Robins was born in Ottawa and has degrees in English Literature from Queen's University and Journalism from the University of King's College. She works as a freelance writer in Ottawa contributing to a variety of publications including Today's Parent, Canadian Living, More Magazine, the Ottawa Citizen, and many others. This is her first young adult novel.

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Objects in Mirror

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By Tudor Robins

Red Deer Press

Copyright © 2013 Tudor Robins
All right reserved.
ISBN: 9780889954977

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“After our Tuesday evening lesson Drew asks me to stay behind. This never happens. One person is never, ever singled out. Any individual attention we get comes during the lesson in the form of yelling and general criticism. Other than that we accept that we’re seen as a homogeneous group; young girls on horseback. At the end of our allotted hour we chorus an obligatory round of “thank you, Drew” and he waves his hand to show we’re collectively dismissed.
But not today. As Mavis raises her eyebrows at me and I turn Sprite towards Drew’s podium at the center of the ring, I’m as baffled as Mavis and very, very curious. I mimic Mavis and raise my own eyebrows as I draw Sprite to a halt beside Drew.
“There’s something I need to tell you,” he says. The bottom of my stomach twitches. It’s preparing to bail on me; to drop away and leave me sick and shaky. From the tone in Drew’s voice I’m not going to be happy about what he says next. “There’s no easy way to say this, and I’m very sorry, but you’re not going to be able to show Sprite at Cedar Mills this weekend.”
This is bad but not as bad as I feared. I’m still nervous and on edge but at least I’m able to find my voice.
“Pardon me?” I, like all Drew’s students, am conditioned to be polite at all times. Drew’s sent riders out of the ring at the beginning of a $50 lesson for muttering under their breath. He tells their parents no, they will not be getting a refund. To Drew, the teaching of good horsemanship and sportsmanship is equal in value to the teaching of a good seat and leg. Students, like me, who’ve never learned with anybody else would never consider being disrespectful. So, while I think What are you talking about? What I say is, “Excuse me?”
“Sprite’s been sold, Grace,” he says.
And that does it. Not only is it bad; it’s a million times worse than I guessed. My intestines twist. My breath goes. I can’t respond and don’t want to as I know any attempt at talking will bring tears.”

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