Sue Perry

DDsE Sue Perry

A girl, a boy, a feral cat, pursuit by unhuman things... A 16-year-old girl keeps a secret diary about her formerly normal life, now twisted by horrible amazing events. "DD" is code for "Dear Diary" and "sE" stands for "signed, Ella". Being sixteen is Tupac Eminem. Ella has no one to talk to except her new diary, which she has to hide from the foster parents she's stuck with since her family got flattened in a car accident. She's trapped in a new school where people act like her tragedy is contagious. Her new suburb is just as boring as the last and offers no hope of secret passageways or magic. But life is not all bad. There's an interesting boy at the new school - although his family turns out to be impossibly dangerous. And there's a feral cat, living in the suburb's pitiful excuse for woods. Sometimes the cat invades Ella's mind. She tells her diary, 'I've gone a special kind of crazy, a split personality. And my other personality is a cat, not a person.'