The Real Rebecca

Product Description
My name is Rebecca Rafferty, and my mother has ruined my life. Again. I didn’t mind her writing boring books for grown-ups. But now she’s written one about an awful girl my age and everyone thinks it’s me! Including the boy who delivers our newspapers, aka Paperboy, aka the most gorgeous boy in the whole world.
Oh, the shame! And if that wasn’t awful enough, the biggest pain in my class wants to use my ‘fame’ to get herself on the reality show My Big Birthday Bash.
I’ve just got to show everyone the REAL Rebecca. But how?

About the Author.
Anna Carey is a freelance journalist from Drumcondra in Dublin who has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent and many other publications. Anna joined her first band when she was fifteen and went on to sing and play with several bands over the next fifteen years. Her last band, El Diablo, released two albums and toured all over the country. This is her first book.

Review from Books for Keeps
Carey has played in bands since she was a teenager herself and Rebecca finds her salvation through music: she too forms a band with her friends – they call themselves Hey Dollface – and beats out her frustration on a drum kit, winning the admiration of Paperboy in the process of course. At no point however does this feel clichéd or predictable, testament to Carey’s talent.

Publisher O’Brien Press has a reputation for discovering talented children’s authors, and this is a very good debut novel: despite the familiar territory it is fresh and original and Carey has a distinctive voice.