Year 6, week 3: A Wounded Name

This week's book:
A Wounded Name
By Dot Hutchison

Have you ever wanted to read a retelling of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays through the point of view of a whiny teenage girl? If so, well then check this book out. 

When I originally checked out this audiobook from the library I had no idea that this book was a retelling of Hamlet. The description of this book says that no other girl at this school was like her, and that she could see ghosts. I did notice that the main character was named Ophelia, but I didn't think anything of it. The book is by Dot Hutchison, who wrote a book I really enjoyed earlier this year, The Butterfly Garden. 

I never been a huge fan of the play Hamlet; Hamlet seems super wishy washy and I just want to yell "snap out of it." Ophelia in this novel and in the original play is this mentally unstable girl who is verbally and physically abused by the guy she loves. 

I would avoid this book by the plague.