In my opinion, everyone can change because it’s only up to us what we decide to do with our lives. But going back to the questions, first of all, I believe that it’s possible for everyone to start afresh, even people who have committed the most horrific crimes. However, the framework of sadness and abandonment built by the author makes the crime more plausible and therefore, it makes it possible for me to sympathize with Alice/Jennifer. I’m not saying that what she did was right because obviously, it wasn’t. Knowing about Alice’s past makes it so much easier for me to understand why she committed a murder. Her relationship with the bossy, arrogant Michelle and the shy, mouse-like Lucy is also very well shown.

Cassidy doesn’t make it difficult for us to see Jennifer’s pre-school adoration of her gorgeous mother, her fear of being abandoned and finally, the more mature Jennifer learning to cope on her own. Through flashbacks, we get an insight into the Berwick Waters’s case and Jennifer’s childhood. While reading the book, we gradually learn about Alice’s dangerous past as Jennifer Jones, finding out that she killed another child. This one sentence provides information about what the book is about and the instant we read it, it makes us intrigued.

“Three children walked away from the edge of town one day – but only two of them came back…” is the sentence written at the backside of Anne Cassidy’s book called Looking for JJ. The novel is a great example of it being possible, with the author making it easy for us to understand Alice’s case. In FINDING JENNIFER JONES Kate makes a fresh start and tries hard to put her past behind her.Can people change? Is it possible for people to make a fresh start after doing something horrible? Will a criminal who has committed a serious crime ever be able to change if given a chance to start over with a clean state? Those are the questions that Alice Tully, the main character of one of Anne Cassidy’s novels, keeps asking herself. This brings back sharp memories for Kate. One day a child goes missing presumed drowned. Summer job in the Tourist Information Office. She is not allowed to do it but she does it anyway. The one thing she wants to do is to contact the third girl who was there on that fateful day when she killed her friend. She rankles under the restrictions of her freedom. Her relationship with those in authority has changed. The experiences she had then and the life she has to live while at university have made her cynical and slightlyīitter. Then I found her a much changed person from the girl at the end of the first book.

Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy