Review: Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life by Maureen McCarthy
The original cover from 1995. Even in my early teens, I thought these models looked too old for the characters they were meant to represent. This book is so old and I first read it such a long time ago that I was tempted to file it under 1990s nostalgia, but I decided that would be doing this great novel a diservice. In recent times there has been much discussion about New Adult, a supposedly new genre. Well, folks, I have news for you. Maureen McCarthy was writing "New Adult" in the mid-1990s and doing a bloody fine job of it. Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life was her first novel of this type and was soon followed on by two more novels, Chain of Hearts and When You Wake and Find Me Gone. These novels contained strong, female characters who had very recently reached adulthood and were facing some new and scary challenges. As I said, the novel was released in the mid-1990s and judging by some of the other titles that were released during that era ( Liv...