At the beginning the two girls begin writing to each other after Tracey puts an advert in a magazine for a pen pal for a joke. Mandy answers the advert and we immediately pin her down as the rebel out of the two after the first few letters. We also pin Mandy down as the one who seems to have it the hardest at home comparing her letters to Tracey's and after she tells Tracey about Steve. "Geez, your life sounds perfect...I'm jealous!"
At the end after everything is revealed, things seem to get better what with Christmas and everything, but Mandy stops writing just after Christmas. Tracey continues to write assuming that Mandy is on holiday but gets more worried as the gap since Mandy's last letter gets longer. Then all of Tracey's letters are sent back to her with 'Return to Sender' written on the front, but not in Mandy's handwriting. "Well, now I knoiw that something's wrong. I got six letters back today, all marked 'Return to Sender'. And it wasn't in your writing."
At the beginning, we assume that Mandy has a difficult home life and Tracey has it great but the tables turn when all the secrets are revealed. There aren't really links between the beginning and end, the events throughout the novel link the beginning and end together.
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