5/30/2023 0 Comments The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks![]() ![]() There's no warning attached not even a young adult specification, which is normally used to flag up books that have adult content. "There's nothing on its cover to alert readers – or parents – to the nastiness of its subject matter. Saying that the novel "makes versions of the imprisonment narrative for adult readers, such as Emma Donoghue's Room, based on the case of Josef Fritzl, the Austrian who locked up his daughter for 24 years, look tame", Bradbury questioned whether books like Brooks's were "good for our teenagers". She called the book "much nastier" than other dystopian fictions such as The Hunger Games and Divergent, writing: "Here we have attempted rape, suicide and death by various means, all of it presided over by our anonymous captor, the 'dirty old man' upstairs who it's difficult not to imagine masturbating as he surveys the nubile young bodies (including a girl of nine)." ![]() ![]() But writing in the Telegraph, in a piece headlined "why wish this book on a child?" and describing The Bunker Diary as "a vile and dangerous story", literary critic Lorna Bradbury vigorously disagreed. ![]()
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