Hamlet gets the R.A. Spratt treatment!
Selby didn't plan to read Hamlet. She certainly never planned to meet him.
Selby Michaels is totally busted. Her parents found out she hasn't read any books for her English class - particularly upsetting, since her parents run the local bookshop.
They sentence Selby to hard labour - working with a tutor to try and catch up. And that tutor is Dan, her nerdy older brother's super-nerd friend. It's so painful. Dan doesn't just force Selby to read Hamlet. He forces her to read it out loud.
But when Selby begins to read - magic happens! Selby and Dan are drawn down through the words and into the play itself. They become characters in the heart-wrenching story, buffeted about in the storm of Shakespeare's language and ideas. Although, unlike Hamlet, Selby isn't afraid of making decisions. She isn't prepared to stand by and let fate play out when so many lives are on the line. Selby may be an academic disappointment in the real world, but here, she can make a difference . . . if only she can figure out how to do it without destroying half the English literary cannon.
Equal parts funny, shocking, clever and thought-provoking, Hamlet is Not Ok is a unique story where Shakespearean moral dilemmas meet the contemporary teenage experience from the bestselling author of Friday Barnes.
