Point of View

The novel is written in the first person point of view. The narrator of the novel is also the main character of the novel, Bettina Ballentyne. The narrator is telling the story as an adult, but she starts the story back at the point where she is a ten-year-old girl.

The point of view of this novel is an intimate point of view that allows a reader to connect closely with the main character, who also happens to be the narrator of the story. The point of view also allows the author to inject her own opinions into the narration and to expand on the events happening to her, to the main character's mother and to the other people in Bettina's life, without having to move out of character or interrupt the flow of the narration. For these reasons, the point of view works well with...