A review by sweetcat
Life: An Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. The perspectives of the different people within the same family was really enjoyable, it reminded me of Girl, Woman, Other. I fell in love with Frankie, seeing her through Clems eyes. I don't enjoy war as a setting, plot device or literary hurdle, and that didn't change with this book. However, I feel I did learn a lot about the Cuban Missile Crisis, and without the war sections, I wouldn't have been able to miss the protagonists. The interspersed sections of White House Briefing Room drew out Clem & Frankies relationship dramatically, giving me time to miss them and realise what exactly I wanted for them and from them.