Roxy's Baby
| Roxy's Baby | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Catherine MacPhail |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury |
| Publication date | June 6, 2005 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 272 pp |
| ISBN | 9780747570424 |
| OCLC Number | 224311899 |
Roxy's Baby is a young adult novel by Catherine MacPhail, published in 2005. It is about a 14 year old girl named Roxy who becomes pregnant and subsequently runs away from home.
Roxy is a 14 year-old girl living with her mother, her younger sister- and her mothers new partner. She has gone completely off the rails since her fathers death, drinking, partying, and that one night, letting the boy kiss her and more...paranoid, convinced that her mother prefers her sister to her, Roxy realises she's pregnant and she doesn't see any solution other than running away to London. She finds shelter in a girl's house but she soon sees that because she is underage the woman in charge will phone the police.Roxy decides that she can't stay there. Because of this, she gets in contact with Mr and Mrs Dyce who have a home for pregnant girls in the country. Roxy is happy about having found someone and decides to go along with them. She is instanly suspicious when she arrives at the house, she wants to know why the Dyces would help all these girls and expect nothing in return? But she soon finds friends in the other girls that live in the house and everything seems to be fine. But Roxy still finds herself wary of everything around her. Why does nobody see the girls after they've given birth to their babies? Why aren't the girls allowed to call their families and on top of that, why should Mr and Mrs Dyce be so kind to spend all this money for not getting back anything? But Roxy finally finds herself working out the dark truth behind the outwardly compassionate Dyces, and it turns out to be far worse than she ever expected.
It won the 13–16 years category at the 2006 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books.[1] It was also shortlisted for the Manchester Book Award and longlisted for the Carnegie Medal.[2][3]
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