This book was a Christmas book from a friend and I thought it looked quite cute. My thanks to the publishers for a review copy. It's a genuine, heartfelt and rich book - and any book that has a cinnamon cake recipe at the back of it is a good book by me. Shevah also deserves plaudits for her handling of the adults they're realistic and sympathetically drawn. It pays off this is a book that's thick with identity and loveliness. Shevah's got this lovely richness about her work, and I was very pleased to see that she'd spent some time ensuring the honesty of writing about a Greek Cypriot family. She knows she has to tell the truth - but where? When? How? It ends up pulling the family apart, exposing tensions between her parents and Eleni's parents, Eleni and Lexie, Lexie and everyone, and everything goes horribly wrong. Their friendship is one of delicious intimacy and all consuming-closeness, again in that way that early girl friendships so often are, but all that is tested after Lexie tells her lie.
Lexie is best friends with her cousin, Eleni, who has a heart condition, and has looked after her all of her life.
'What Lexie Did' follows a lie that spirals out of control in that way that lies can and so often do. Shevah is one of those authors whom I've been aware of for a while but never got quite round to reading suffice to say, she's a joy and this is a solid and richly told story of family fit to put alongside the work of Hilary McKay, Jacqueline Wilson and Susie Day.
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