In a final step, I would like to share my impressions of the novel, after finish reading.
So I think this novel is written especially for pupils, who have to read a book in school, muchly when they don't want to.
I think this book isn't like the other boring ones, I red at school.
After the first chapter, I thought, this book would only be about squash but the squash slipped into the background and a romantic love story, with at taste of dramatic comes through.
So I can definitely recommend this book to everyone who is interested in enthralling stories.


And now, I hope that you enjoyed reading my weblog, I'm very sorry that there aren't some images, but there were some technical problems and I think, this weblog is although without the use of images, a kind of creative :-)


Carmen Zuber

Now, there is a sentence of which I think everyone should think of after reading the novel.
"Whenever you see your shadow Jamie, just remember you're looking at me."

Abby tells this sentence, when Jamie deserts Abby.
This sentence shows, that both share the same fate, which make them "transform" into shadows.
And because of this, the two "Shadows" can affiliate with eachoter, so if they do that, they grow stronger and they can solve problems together.

Jamie and Abby are going to arrive at Cumbria. They drive per hitcher, so it's a long way for them, to drive to Cumbria because not every driver takes them along for a far way.
After some exhausting hours, they arrive at a farm in Cumbria, where Abby knows the woman, who is living there.
They have the chance to eat some food and relax in the bedroom. This is really needful for them after this long trip to Cumbria. When they are lying in the bed, Abby tells Jamie a lot about her life, also about the men, which are called Angelo and Vittorio, she explains the whole story to him, what happened before. She tells a lot about the character of the two men and also that she lived with them.
Jamie gets to know the real story, why Abby ran away from home, so she explains, that her father ignored her, but suddenly the two notice, that Danny, the rival of Jamie, is Abby's brother.
In the last chapter, the story is very romantic and stirring, the reader guess, that Jamie would leave Abby and in the end of this chapter, he quits her, it's very difficult for both, but Jamie knows, that he should try to have a new and better life at home.
So after a painful farewell, Jamie is back at home, he decides to play squash again and he wins this important match, he always dreamed of. His father tells him , that his mother died and Jamie is very shocked about this recentness he adepts, that her mother commited suicide, after reading Jamie's diaries. She adepted everything, Jamie was overburdened in his life, so she gave herself the fault.
In the next time, Jamie's father becomes a new person, he is exchanged and Jamie never sees again this father, who always pressures him. The two become a caring life and despite thinking of Abby, Jamie controls a better life, than before.

Now I would like to present you some facts, which show this special friendship between Spider and Jamie.
The reader gets to know, that both know eachother for really long time, because they are neighbours and Spider lives in the house next to Jamie.
Jamie knows, that he can always count on him, when he has got some problems or just when we needs someone to talk to.
So this quotation shows, how happy Jamie is, when he meets his friend: "After supper, he took the basketball, wandered out to the garden and threw the ball up at the basket on the wall, He often found it relaxing to come out here and throw a basketball and there was always the chance that the sound would bring Spider out from next door and they could talk."
So Jamie really whises to see Spider, to have the chance to talk to him.
It's also clear, that Spider trusts him a lot, because when Jamie asks him for the money, to pay the men off, Spider doesn't know, why he wants to have the money but although, he gives it to him because he wants to help his friend, no matter in what situation he is at this moment.
I think, Jamie is really happy to have a friend like Spider, especially, when he flees from his father.