As Happy As Here

I enjoyed this book immensely. Three teenage girls, all from different backgrounds find themselves sharing a hospital wing. When they witness a crime below their window, they team up to solve it while being stuck in hospital. Every girl undergoes change after this experience and the experience that put them in hospital in the first place. Show more Show less

This is a beautiful story of triumph, death, accidents, growing up and trauma. The blurb states:
Three teenage girls from very different backgrounds find themselves sharing a hospital ward. When they witness a crime in the park below their window, they bond over trying to solve the crime and each one undergoes a profound change.

A beautiful coming-of-age story about identity, expectation, class, justice, society, fairness, and, above all, kindness.

'Fresh insights into friendship and family are spun through tangents into chance and randomness ... and music and its power to trigger memory and give a rhythm and pace to life. Injured Evie, in particular, learns how to grow and walk away stronger.' - Weekend Australian Show more Show less

Before reading this book, the author came in and read the first chapter to us. The book sounded well written and captivating. This book showed that even if you are stuck in a hospital bed, it doesn’t mean you are useless and a moral which was, that if you lie there are terrible consequences. Three teenage girls; Evie, Jemma and Lucy, are found sharing a hospital ward. Their room looks over a park and they witness a crime in the park and laneway. When they investigate, they end up solving the crime but there is a disastrous end… Show more Show less

I sort of liked this book. It was very sad and uplifting an had huge twist at the end when a major character dies. I liked how the three girls helped each other while they where in hospital.

This book was great to read and once I started I couldn’t stop!
Although it is a little sad, it also has a lot of adventure!

This story is a masterpiece. Set against a backdrop of hospital life and neglect, we follow the characters through an epic personal journey. It all starts when the three girls find a newspaper with some words scrawled on it, and a chain of robberies begins out of nowhere... Show more Show less