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Jam's grief for Reeve has left her paralysed. She does nothing but think of him and the forty-one days of their relationship. She's not interested in school. friends, food, family, even therapy. And so, in desperation, Jam's parents send her off to a boarding school for Kids With Problems. Her room-mate at the Wooden Barn, DJ, has an eating disorder. But Jam doesn't really care about that, nor does she care that she has been selected for a mysterious class: Special Topics in English, which is giving DJ some major green-eye.
There are only five kids in the Special Topics class, which is led by Mrs Quenell, and only one book to study for the entire semester: ''The Bell Jar'' by Sylvia Plath. You might think a story of depression by an author who committed suicide is an odd choice for a group of vulnerable, emotionally fragile teenagers. Jam and the group think that. But Mrs Quenelle Quenell has a way about her and the journals she gives the group to write in introduce them to a whole new world. When Jam writes in hers, she can be with Reeve again...
... but of course, nobody can live in the past forever.
