Annabel Pitcher's Ketchup Clouds

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“Ketchup Clouds” by Annabel Pitcher is a realistic fiction novel set in present day England. After the protagonist, Alice, kills one of her boyfriends, she writes letters under the pseudonym Zoe to a Texas death row inmate confessing what she did in the past year. Alice’s letters explain how she meets two boys, falling in love with one and killing the other. She struggles with her guilt over the murder as she relives the events leading up to the incident and then up to the memorial. Pitcher uses several literary techniques to support the theme that lying to save one’s self usually ends up causing more problems that there were to begin

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