Title The Unicorn Girl Series --- Author Carolyn Glyn Cover Art --- Publisher Victor Gollancz - 1996 First Printing 1966 Category Young Adult Warnings --- Main Characters Fullie Main Elements Unicorns

A shimmering, delicate portrait of a sensitive young girl running away from the demands and responsibilities of growing up. Fullie, 13, attempts to avoid the anguish of adolescence by escaping into a secure and enchanting world of fantasy. It is a funny, touching, steadily engaging story, original and high spirited.

Hmm...I wasn't sure if I wanted to review this book or not because it is a bit of a stretch to call it a fantasy. Yes, there is a unicorn, sort of, more a kind of symbolic creature, a representation of this strange girl that has visions of forest gods. I wouldn't recommend reading it because of the unicorn content that is for sure. She's not a unicorn girl because she can tame a while beast, she just happens to be a virgin. It's a tale of a social awkward girl that is coming of age while at a Girl Guides camp one summer. She is a very odd girl (though there are some aspects of her I can sympathize with) and most of the book is about the camp and how she struggles to get along with the girls there and tries not to be too weird, and then one adventure that takes her and one friend into London where they are followed by an oddly creepy man whose motivations remain unclear till the end (he turns out not to be a pedophile though he literally chases them through the subway system, follows taxis, etc only to find out he's a nice guy that lives with his mom!). On the whole, I didn't like the book, and while it is a coming of age tale, I didn't feel like the main character changed or grew up. Wasn't a book for me.