Surprising Tales From The Ends Of The Earth - E-book Overview

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Whilst G cynically makes use of Kelly Ann only to borrow money from and complete homework assignments for him, she is blind to any of his faults and perceives him as excellent.

Meanwhile the hero Chris, an additional fellow pupil, is 'secretly' in love with her despite the fact that everybody bar Kelly Ann is mindful of it. She is oblivious to his thoughts as nicely as his very good looks, intelligence and attraction as she has known him given that early childhood and sees him just as a friend, or as Kelly Ann puts it, she would no more feel of kissing him that snogging her personal brother if she experienced 1.

Kelly Ann has two ideal pals Stephanie and Liz who are overtly scathing of Kelly Ann's need for 'tosser' G but nevertheless are fiercely loyal and supportive of her.

Stephanie arrived to Kelly Ann's extensive university after being expelled from her non-public boarding university for getting sexual intercourse with the faculty gardener's son and contacting the head mistress a disappointed previous bag. In accordance to Stephanie she would have acquired absent with it if she hadn't mentioned 'old'. Stephanie is a nymphet whose main interest is intercourse, most specially with rough, working class boys.

Liz is a plump busty teen whose obsessions are diet plans and psychology. Diet programs generally fail within several hours because of to Liz's tendency to reward herself for abstemious conduct with 'just one' chocolate, slice of pizza, and so on. Liz's makes an attempt at psychological counselling are not constantly appreciated by her customer victims who are subjected to usually unflattering analyses of their difficulties and shortcomings whether they asked for them or not.

Nonetheless Julian, Stephanie's skinny but properly endowed brother is willing to place up with Liz's counselling classes offered she wears her tight white lycra leading or the black lace bustier. Julian is a laid again pc genius who has no ambitions other than the overthrow of capitalism, preserving his generous allowance from capitalist portaloo producer father, and profitable of Liz's affections.

The help of this circle of close friends is crucial in supporting Kelly Ann offer not only with the vicissitudes of her enjoy life (or frequently deficiency of it) but also to cope with troubles in her family.

Her more mature sister, whom Kelly Ann refers to by the acronym MNP or Skip No Individuality, blots her perfectionist copybook by falling expecting by her similarly boring boyfriend Graham. This plunges Kelly Ann's mother who had just turned forty, into a midlife disaster which commences by her donning boob tubes and possessing her navel pierced, and culminates in her leaving Kelly Ann's father for a toy boy Spanish waiter. Kelly Ann is mortified by her mother's conduct, particularly the affair with the waiter which, as Kelly Ann observes, helps make it clear to absolutely everyone that at minimum 1 of her dad and mom need to nevertheless have intercourse.

Apart from her mother and father, the most influential adult character is English teacher Mrs Conner whose partner has still left her for his secretary.