Having loved Time Travelling With A Hamster I was looking forward to this one.
Ethel lives with her grandmother as her mother is dead, and she knows nothing of her father. She has such severe acne that she resorts to purchasing a herbal remedy online. This ointment, unfortunately, doesn’t seem to do much to cure her acne…but taking it before she goes on a sun-bed has an unexpected side-effect. She becomes invisible!
There’s some lovely comic scenes where Ethel attempts to help her friend Elliot out. There’s an endearing quality to Ethel that shines off the page, and it was good to a genuine friendship between a boy and a girl.
Family, just as in Welford’s debut, is central to the book and there’s many links to it here. There are some unexpected developments in the course of the story, and this is a novel about finding yourself that will entertain and move you.