Product Description
Vanishing Point is a crossover verse novel that poses the question of how individuals can learn to be comfortable in their own bodies. Nineteen-year-old Diana Warren suffers from anorexia and bulimia. She faces a challenging situation at home with dysfunctional parents and a Down-syndrome brother, which causes her to seek refuge in female role models in the mythic past. An Irish racehorse trainer who reignites her childhood love of horses causes her to question everything. Will she choose life or death? And what happens when that choice is taken out of her hands?
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REVIEWS
“Across more than 30 years, Kroll has produced six substantial collections of poetry and one of short stories. Certainly, Vanishing Point provides a satisfyingly complex and well-organised narrative, together with memorable characters…” GEOFF PAGE, The Australian
“Vanishing Point is a : book with has all the hallmarks of a senior English set-text about it and there’s plenty to relish for adult readers as well, who are the people – let’s face it! – who make such decisions.” AIDEN COLEMAN, Rochford Street Review
“Vanishing Point is an extraordinary coming-of-age novel written in deep, intimate verse. It leads the reader into a voyeuristic journey that moves from Diana’s confessions, her self-mythologising and through pain, asceticism, loss and healing. There are a number of voices in the work, but Diana’s is the most pervasive, and one that most female readers at least, will recognise parts of.” MAGDALENA BALL, Compulsive Reader
