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Becoming Dinah // Book Review

Rating:          4.5/5 About the imprint: "There’s always another side to any story, whether in worksof fiction or simply in the stories we tell ourselves, and Bellatrix books willaim to shine a light on the unknown, misunderstood and misrepresented. They’llreveal new ways of looking at the world and looking at stories." Plot: Seventeen-year-old Dinah needs to leave her home, the weird commune where she grew up. She needs a whole new identity, starting with how she looks, starting with shaving off her hair, her 'crowning glory'. She has to do it quickly, because she has to go now. Dinah was going to go alone and hitch a ride down south. Except, she ends up being persuaded to illegally drive a VW campervan for hundreds of miles, accompanied by a grumpy man with one leg. This wasn't the plan. But while she's driving, Dinah will be forced to confront everything that led her here, everything that will finally show her which direction t