Jacqueline has always known there was a bad half lurking under the good, and one isn't sure whether the sniffing is a cause or a catalyst. Jacqueline is surrounded by people who care deeply for her - her grandma particularly - and there is great hope she will get over her split personality though there is some suggestion of schizophrenia. In fact, the whole story is told in the first person, and only at the end does one realise she is talking to a psychiatrist. When she finally sets fire to the school, she is sent to a 'place where people listen'. However, she has lost control, and sometimes Jacqueline the bad takes over anyway. Jacqueline has never read the story, but she realises there are awful things happening to her, so she gets rid of the bottle.
The chain of events this starts is horrifying and along with her bad behaviour, Jacqueline starts having terrible nightmares - dreams that parallel Stevenson's story of Jekyll and Hyde.
One sniff and she becomes Jacqueline the bad. In an old cupboard in grandma's attic, Jacqueline comes across a bottle with a sticky substance in it. Every school holiday she stays with her grandma in Camden. Her parents' business keeps them very busy, and while they are loving, they have little time for her.
In 1994, he won the Carnegie Medal for Stone Cold, and also the Sheffield Book Award.Īlso by Robert Swindells: Brother in the Land Room 13 Stone Cold Nightmare Stairs Unbeliever Blitzed Ruby Tanya The Thousand Eyes of Night The Tunnel The Shade of Hettie Daynes Burnout In the Nick of Time Daz 4 Zoe Snakebite Snapshot Branded Roger’s War No Angels Wrecked Jacqueline Hyde Stayling Up A Serpent’s Tooth Follow a Shadow Timesnatch Unbeliever and The Last Bus.Jacqueline is a good girl - the sort that always gets merits in school and is no trouble to anyone. He has won the Children’s Book Award twice, for Brother In The Land and for Room 13. At seventeen, he joined the RAF for three. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb, homeless like him.īut what Deb doesn’t tell him is that she’s an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer and that she’s prepared to use herself as bait…Winner of the Carnegie Medal Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors and is a full-time writer. ROBERT SWINDELLS left school at fifteen to work on a local newspaper. A tense, exciting thriller combined with a perceptive and harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young and vulnerable homeless. Stone Cold is an exciting and disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells.
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