Published in 2007, 'Kiss' is a novel written by jacqueline wilson. The book is aimed at teenage girls, and covers themes that they can identifey with, love,heartbreak and the worries of growing up.
Sylvie has always been the small, quite girl that nobody really ever notices, well nobody apart from Carl. Her and her next-door neighboor have been best friends forever. She always thought of him as, the one whom she would marry, but it's only when she hits her teens that she see's him in a new light. Carl is cute, funny and all hers.
Then when Sylvie meets miranda everything changes. Swept up by a human whirlwind of popularity, she feels both flattered yet threatend. Miranda is grown up, carefree, and beautiful; everything that sylvie has to live without being. At one of Miranda's hip parties, everything falls down, whilst, in a game of spin the bottle, Carl and Miranda share a kiss.
As yet another trip is made by a group of four friends, everything about the story comes out and falls into place. The ending is a real suprise, though when going back through the novel you realise that everything was always set up to end that way. I love the irony of the fact that the one thing Sylvie feared, Carl falling for her best friend, would never happen.
The book was funny, gripping and at times tragically sad. I first read the novel aged eleven, and it definatley set me with a good outlook on growing up. 'Kiss' has many messages, perhaps the best showing the significance of friendship compassion, placed next to romantic love. You experience a real glad-ness when the two character's re-connect, and find yourself wishing them all the best for the futre.
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