Numbers by Rachel Ward6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Her own life, which she describes as “crap,” slowly improves when she finds herself reluctantly forming a friendship with a tall, gangly, antsy boy in her class named Spider. ![]() I’d rather not have known, but it wasn’t something I could switch on and off.” Casualties of how we all live now, I guess – cars, booze, drugs, despair. Most of them were only going to make their forties or fifties quite a few were checking out way before that. “They say average life expectancy’s going up, don’t they, but I guess that doesn’t apply to kids from the projects of Greater London. Narrated in the first person, Jem explains her reaction to seeing how long her classmates have to live: This gets her stigmatized as a “weirdo,” and so she has become one of a group of school outcasts (facilitated – in the cruel way kids can be – by her status as a foster child in a working-class milieu). Tormented by the anguish in her this causes, she avoids looking directly at others. ![]() Jem Marsh is a 15-year-old London teenager who has the power to see the exact date a person will die when she looks into his or her eyes. ![]()
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