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Anne Paperback – June 2, 2019

by Zarina Macha (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
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Emotive, raw, and heartbreaking young-adult novel about overcoming past traumas through resilence and love. Relatable for teen and adult readers looking for a grittier update to Judy Blume or Jacqueline Wilson.

‘Are you okay, Mummy? Did Daddy hurt you again?’

Anne Mason’s childhood in Richmond emulates suburban bliss, with a wealthy father and a loving mother. But behind the polished windows, Anne’s father terrorizes her mother, shattering their utopian home life with beatings and beer. Home-schooled on a diet of books and museums, knowledge becomes Anne’s only saviour.

One night her dad comes home with the news that her mother has left them forever. Unable to care for his daughter, Anne is sent to live with her kindly aunt and uncle. Struggling to settle into day school, Anne enrolls in Lakeland Boarding School. She meets and falls for gentle Karen, whose friends torment Anne and her troubled roommate Simone.

Forced to confront her traumatic upbringing, Anne learns the horrors of the past and present. Will love, hope, and inner strength prevail?

'Anne' is a powerful and dramatic YA tale about life, family and coming-of-age in and outside of London.
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  5. ISBN-10
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Zarina Macha is an author, blogger and musician born and raised in London, UK. She studied Songwriting and Creative Artistry at The Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford. She regularly writes a social comment blog titled 'The Zarina Macha Blog.' In her spare time she loves reading and fan-girling over Game of Thrones.

In 2018 she began independently publishing her books through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing platform. Every Last Psycho and Anne are her young-adult fiction novels that deal with mental illness, drug abuse, domestic violence and coming-of-age. Art is a Waste of Time and Single Broke Female are her two poetry books.

Around Midnight is her fifth self-published work. It is a young-adult drama about jazz, ambition, and a toxic relationship.

For more information about her please visit zarinamacha.co.uk.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zarina Macha
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 2, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 191613260X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1916132603
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.06 x 0.68 x 7.81 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 out of 5 stars 31 ratings

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Zarina Macha is an author, blogger, poet, musician, and YouTuber from London, UK. She has currently self-published twenty-one books: six under her name and fifteen as Diana Vale. In 2021, her young adult novel Anne won the international Page Turner Book Award for fiction. In 2023 she released Tic Tac Toe, a young adult dystopian novel that depicts a cultural Marxist society and satirises wokeism, identity politics, and political correctness.

She began publishing her work in 2018 while completing a degree in Songwriting and Creative Artistry from The Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) in Guildford. Her three published YA fiction works are Every Last Psycho (2018), a compilation of two novellas that deal with heavy trauma and mental illness; Anne (2019), a coming-of-age novel about domestic violence, and Around Midnight (2020), a novel about an emotionally abusive teenage relationship.

She has also published two poetry volumes; Art is a Waste of Time (2018) and Single Broke Female (2019). Both explore the essence of womanhood, including sexuality, femininity, and emotional angst. She has performed her poetry at various functions in London, including Poetry Unplugged, the Farrago Slam, and the Global Fusion Music & Arts Spoken Word events.

In 2021 Macha began writing contemporary new adult romance under the pen name Diana Vale. Her Kirk University books are standalone stories about students who find love at university. This fictitious university is based on the real-life University of York in northern England where Macha briefly attended prior to ACM.

Macha has two YouTube channels: Zarina Macha Author, where she makes videos about her books and writing process, and The Rational Female, where she criticises Feminism. She identifies as an anti-Feminist women’s advocate, egalitarian and humanitarian. She believes in freedom, justice, and human rights for all, and seeks to protect free speech at all costs. She is also strongly against the use of sensitivity readers in fiction.

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  • Christine Fritzen
    5.0 out of 5 stars YA novel about pain and resilience
    Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2019
    Anne by Zarina Macha
    Audience: young adult-13 and up
    Content Warnings: Adult themes, mentions of rape, domestic abuse, sex, self-harm, and bullying
    My rating: 5 stars

    Zarina Macha is a YA author from the UK. She has published, before Anne, a compilation of two Novellas called Every Last Psycho and a poetry collection called Art is a Waste of Time. I have now had the pleasure of reading all of her published or to be published works. Macha writes stories about teenagers who are in the midst of dealing with issues teenagers do but should never have to. Macha does this with tact and sensitivity, walking readers through the emotional impacts of her character’s choices.

    Anne was written as if the main character was writing a journal the readers were allowed access to. The beginning focuses on Anne’s parents’ relationship and the reader sees a child surrounded by violence. Anne’s mother tries to insulate her from the worst, but Anne sees and hears much of what her father does to her mother. Her parents decide to homeschool Anne because her father wants to have as much control over Anne’s education as he can. This changes how Anne experiences school and learning and effects her later in the narrative. Macha reveals several twists about Anne and her parents throughout the book that I do not want to spoil but will say that some took turns I expected and some left me wanting to know more.

    All in all, I found the book entertaining and well written. I enjoyed the references Macha made to Narnia (one of my favorite book series growing up) and to high school films such as Mean Girls. In some ways, the conflicts between Anne’s friend group and the “popular” seem derivative, however as I read further, the differences between most high school stories and Anne grew larger. I would definitely recommend this book to any who enjoy stories about high schoolers dealing with real-world problems and anyone who is looking for more LGBT representation in their books.

    I received a free ARC of this book, with thanks to the author. The decisions to review and my rating are my own.

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  • Steph Warren
    4.0 out of 5 stars An eye-opening insight (or reminder) of the pressures and serious issues young people face
    Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2019
    *I received a free copy of this book, with thanks to the author. The decision to review and my opinions are my own.*

    As an adult, I was surprised how much I had forgotten about the pressures and emotional strain of adolescence, until Anne brought it all flooding back to me.

    The story starts with a teen / young adult Anne deciding whether or not to trust her therapist with what is troubling her, then is told in one long flashback of her recount to him. She begins with the traumatic events of her early childhood, and then takes us through the intervening years, detailing how she coped with the family estrangements, new friendships and budding romances.

    Zarina Macha covers a wealth of huge and serious issues as Anne’s story unfolds. We start with domestic abuse, child abuse and addiction issues, and move through various mental health issues, self-harm, pressures related to race and sexuality, bullying and ostracism, underage sex, peer pressure, rape and suicidal thoughts. Listing these out makes it seem like this is an extreme story, but sadly that is not the case, and I have seen some of the events Anne describes during my own (relatively sheltered) teen and young adult years, although thankfully not in my own experiences.

    One of the ways in which the author firmly roots her novel in the current and the real world is by referring to world events and popular culture. Talk of the Rainbow Fairies series, One Direction, Narnia and Mean Girls mingles with discussion of the Charlie Hebdo attack and Brexit to give a firm sense of the here-and-now. This also brings home how very possible the events in the book are with sobering effect.

    Anne handled the events and situations in the story so maturely throughout that she seemed more of an adult than the adults around her, and I was continually surprised by her age in the text. In fact, most of the teenagers felt and acted more like my experience of older teens/young adults, although this could very well be down to the adult experiences they have to survive and process.

    Anne is a great story for teens, about serious issues. The peer pressure elements in particular will likely resonate with many, along with the identity exploration. For adults the story is an eye-opening insight (or reminder) of the pressures young people face and how intense and all-consuming they feel. Something worth remembering when we are older and more world-weary.

    There were days when I had to call A&E, especially as the years progressed and Dad’s drinking got worse. She always said the same things. She fell in her heels. She tripped. She walked into a lamppost and banged her head. Not once did she say a word against my father or tell anyone what was happening. She was a butterfly trapped in his cocoon.

    – Zarina Macha, Anne

    Review by Steph Warren of Bookshine and Readbows blog
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  • Jana T
    5.0 out of 5 stars Coming of age story that is hard to forget
    Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2020
    Anne is a coming of age story by a young British writer Zarina Macha. It is a young adult story that is told in a form of a journal and as a reader you feel you are privileged to have been given access to the innermost thoughts and feelings of a teenage girl.
    It is amazing how this young writer who is just out of the teenage years herself is dealing with such themes as domestic abuse and self-harm and bullying and addiction and homophobia and racism and … the way the writer walks us through those emotional experiences, the care she takes, the pictures she paints with her words and all of them told in the journal of the young Anne Mason.
    I think we need to remember that this book is how the young Anne experiences life and sees the world, it is meant to be written the way it is, it is not some elaborated mature storytelling, it is raw and packs a punch and if you ask any young teenager who has read it, they will tell you that they can relate and whatever you thought might have been an exaggeration or out of proportion … it is a teenage girl telling her story to her journal!
    I think that Anne is one of those young adult stories that would be a great addition to a school library and used in literacy class as a starter for a discussion about all those social issues that it touches upon! Well written Zarina Macha and I am looking forward to your next release!
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  • Joey
    5.0 out of 5 stars 5/5
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2019
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    I picked this up as it caught my eye and the blurb sounded very interesting. It pulled me in from the first page, going back through Anne's short life, the trouble she'd faced and the way her life had changed. I adored the character, the way she stood up for herself even when presented with difficult choices, and the way she stayed true to herself. Beautifully written and heartbreaking in places, an amazing story and one that touches very much on mental health and the importance of taking care of yourself and others. I very much recommend it!
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