# Goggle-Eyes > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Goggle-Eyes > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Goggle-Eyes.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goggle-Eyes > Source revision: 1335447120 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) ***Goggle-Eyes***, or ***My War with Goggle-Eyes*** in the US, is a children's novel by [Anne Fine](/source/Anne_Fine), published by Hamilton in 1989. It features a girl who thinks she hates her mother's boyfriend.[2] In the [frame story](/source/Frame_story), set in a Scottish [day school](/source/Day_school), that girl Kitty tells her friend Helen about hating her mother's boyfriend. Fine won the annual [Carnegie Medal](/source/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)) from the [Library Association](/source/CILIP), recognising the year's best children's book by a British author.[2] She also won the [Guardian Children's Fiction Prize](/source/Guardian_Children's_Fiction_Prize), a similar award that authors may not win twice.[3] Six books have won both awards in 45 years through 2011.[a] *Goggle-Eyes* was adapted for television by the [BBC](/source/BBC) in 1993.[4] [Little, Brown](/source/Little,_Brown) published a US edition under its Joy Street Books [imprint](/source/Imprint_(trade_name)) in 1989, entitled *My War with Goggle-Eyes*.[1] ## Plot summary The story is told in the [first person](/source/First-person_narrative), by Kitty Killen. It is set in Scotland in the 1980s, when [anti-nuclear protests](/source/Anti-nuclear_protests) were prominent in the news. When Helen runs out of the classroom in distress, Mrs Lupey sends Kitty after her, despite the two not being particular friends. Kitty soon realises that Helen dislikes the man her mother is going to marry, so she tells her the story of how she first loathed Gerald, her mother's boyfriend, and how she gradually got used to him, despite his anti-[CND](/source/CND) views. "Goggle-Eyes"' is the nickname Kitty gives Gerald, because of the way he stares ("goggles") at Kitty's mother. The story is told in a cloakroom cupboard during one morning, with occasional interruptions from Liz and Mrs Lupey. ## The characters - Kitty Killen, a Scottish schoolgirl, the narrator - Rosalind "Rosie" Killen, Kitty's mother, a nurse - Judith "Jude" Killen, Kitty's younger sister - Gerald "Goggle-Eyes" Faulkner, Rosalind's boyfriend - Helen "Helly" Johnston, a classmate of Kitty's - Liz, Helen's best friend - Mrs Lupey, the form teacher - Josie, Beth, Ben and others, CND protesters - Inspector McGee, head of the police presence at the protest - Mr Killen, Rosalind's ex-husband - Mrs Harrison, Kitty's and Jude's babysitter - Simon, one of Rosalind's boyfriends - Floss, the Killens' cat ## Literary significance and reception *Goggle-Eyes* was awarded the [Carnegie Medal](/source/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)) for 1989[2] and the [Guardian Prize](/source/Guardian_Prize) in 1990, the two most prestigious British awards for children's literature. It was also shortlisted for the [Smarties Award](/source/Nestl%C3%A9_Smarties_Book_Prize) in 1990 and the [German Youth Literature Prize](/source/Deutscher_Jugendliteraturpreis) in 1993.[5] ## Television adaptation *Goggle-Eyes* was adapted for television by the BBC as a four-episode mini-series, which was broadcast in 1993. It starred [Honeysuckle Weeks](/source/Honeysuckle_Weeks) as Kitty.[4] The screenwriter, [Deborah Moggach](/source/Deborah_Moggach), won the [Writer's Guild](/source/Writers'_Guild_of_Great_Britain) Award for Best Adapted TV Serial. Anti-nuclear protests had diminished after the [1991 close of the Cold War](/source/Cold_War_(1985%E2%80%931991)) so the story was revised to feature a more timely issue, [Green politics](/source/Green_politics).[6] ## Notes 1. Alternatively, [six authors](/source/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)#Winners_of_multiple_awards) have won the [Carnegie Medal](/source/Carnegie_Medal_(literary_award)) for their [Guardian Prize](/source/Guardian_Prize)-winning books. [Professional librarians](/source/CILIP) confer the Carnegie and select the winner from all British children's books. *[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)* newspaper's prize winner is selected by British children's writers, "peers" of the author who has not yet won it, for one children's (age 7+) or young-adult fiction book. Details regarding author and publisher nationality have varied. ## References 1. [(My War with Goggle-Eyes)](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/FYFR9TPTPVLGPL9AK9R1R57UJ7QRE9NYY7UUXBME1QAQMNXQTR-21184?func=find-b&find_code=WRD&request=my+war+with+goggle+eyes&adjacent=1). Hollis catalog record. Harvard University Libraries. Retrieved 1 August 2012. 1. [Carnegie Winner 1989](https://web.archive.org/web/20180608104818/http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/archive-title.php?id=69). Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. [CILIP](/source/CILIP). Retrieved 28 February 2018. 1. ["Guardian children's fiction prize relaunched: Entry details and list of past winners"](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/mar/12/guardianchildrensfictionprize2001.guardianchildrensfictionprize). *The Guardian* 12 March 2001. Retrieved 1 August 2012. 1. [*Goggle-Eyes* at the Internet Movie Database](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143277/) 1. [Anne Fine's Awards](https://www.annefine.co.uk/awards.php) 1. Author's foreword to the Longman educational edition of *Goggle-Eyes*, 1996 ## External links - —immediately, first US edition (ISBN 0316283142) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Goggle-Eyes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goggle-Eyes) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goggle-Eyes?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.