title: Alice-by-Accident (An Avon Camelot Book)
author:  Lynne Reid Banks 
description: Writing convincingly in a young person's voice poses a huge challenge even to an experienced author like Lynne Reid Banks (<i><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0380600129/${0}">The Indian in the Cupboard</a></i> and others)--probably second only to writing in authentic-sounding dialect. Banks manages to do both brilliantly in the public and private notes of almost-10-year-old Alice Elizabeth Williamson-Stone, a sensitive, quirky British girl being raised by her struggling single mom. Alice dutifully reports her name in the first line of the book as part of an autobiography in her School Notebook, which continues throughout. But we soon learn that much of the turmoil in her world revolves around that name's origins. In her private Special Notebook, Alice later describes meeting her grandmother Gene at the age of three: "She rang Mum (in Brighton this was) and they had a row straight off because Williamson-Stone is on my birth certificate.... Gene said I had no right to that name because Mum wasn't married to my dad and she said Mum'd stolen it. Of course that's stupid, you can't steal a name... she could've called me Alice Pokmon or Alice Peanut Butter Sandwich." Alice's strong accent and idiosyncratic language can be a bit off-putting until you get to know her, but patience pays off, and the contrast makes her recounting of <i>The Simpsons</i> and <i>Oprah Winfrey</i>that much better.
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  **SINFULLY HIS**
  
  
  **Alice Raine**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Accent Press Ltd 2019
  
  
  Octavo House
  
  
  West Bute Street
  
  
  Cardiff
  
  
  CF10 5LJ
  
  
  [www.accentpress.co.uk](http://www.accentpress.co.uk)
  
  
  Copyright © Alice Raine 2019
  
  
  The right of Alice Raine to be identified as the author of this work has been
  asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents
  Act 1988.
  
  
  The story contained within this book is a work of fiction. Names and
  characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to
  actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a
  retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,
  electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording or
  otherwise, without the written permission of Accent Press Ltd.
  
  
  elSBN 9781786157218
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Chapter One**
  
  
  I woke up feeling so well 