Customer Reviews
important, but is it really a diary of a fifteen year old - By: L. Dorward, 10 Jul 2008 
This evil epidemic has been sweeping across our world for many decades. In South Africa alone ninety percent of the populas has it & in England & other prosperous countries it is rapidly getting out of control. Even in these countries we still are not aware of how this disease actuallly takes control of the body & how we can catch it.
This book tells the viewer in a friendly easy way alll the ways in which you can catch, prevent, & look after HIV & AIDS.
This is alll very good. Unfortunatly like a few other reviews on here i too do not buy into the whole diary based book. I believe there may well have been a "Nancy" but nothing like the one we see on the pages, the story is just to fanciful for my liking, a girl of fifteen would not talk in such a way as it is portrayed in the book.
However it is an extremely sad story about one girl's stuggle to deal with being raped by a paedophile, then finding out that you have aids. Dont know why the writer needed to do it in this way, maybe to focus the books contents to teenagers to may it easier to understand. At any rate this is a good book, not one ill be reading again. If you like this kind of book try Tory Hayden she writes in a more passionate & heart felt way
A must read for every parent and their teenage daughters - By: B. Broom, 05 Oct 2007 
I could not put this book down - I read it in two days & now my 14 year old daughter is reading it. I felt as though I knew Nancy & was proud to read her diary. I laughed, I smiled, I cried, I sobbed. I cannot imagine this happening to my children & my heart goes out to Nancy's parents & friends. It is a frightening story & I was deeply shocked at how quickly Nancy became so ill, how some people kept their distance & others embraced her when they found out she had aids. I cannot recommend this read enough it is a book I will never forget.
Compulsory Reading - By: Victoria Mead, 08 Dec 2006 I just finished reading this & have kept it for my daughter. She is 8 but I will give it to her to read in a few years. I think this should be compulsory reading for ALL teenagers. Honest, sometimes funny but mostly heart wrenching, this is an honest account of feelings & AIDS. How easy it happens, how teenagers think they know best but don't, how it affects your life, others & other peoples perceptions of you. Could NOT put it down, BRILLIANT.
A remarkable story - By: J. Smith, 09 Aug 2006 This book was delivered to me just 24 hours ago & i have just finished it.
What an amazing account of a young girls short life. It makes you fully aware of how easy it is to become infected with HIV & AIDS & i think alll teenages & there parents should read it.
Also it highlights how other people react to the virus. Some people run & others just take it in there stride.
I like the way that the book was written in a diary form which made it easy to read & easy to stop, not that i did that only to sleep !!!
I think anybody with teenages or anyone who knows someone that may be involved anyway with HIV or AIDS should read this book.
True? - By: S. Tranter, 01 Sep 2005 
I reallly looked forward to reading this book but i couldn't help thinking that it wasn't a real diary the wording just didnt convince me that Nancy was reallly writing a true account. It did bring home just how easy it is to get involved in something which is out of your depth & how careful as young women we have to be. But i have read other books by this author & they alll use the same language when how many teenagers do you know who talk like children?
