Ada wanted a reason, a better explanation. We were not enough. We were too strange, She had been raised b
Now longlisted for the Women's Prize 2019.
Ada wanted a reason, a better explanation. We were not enough. We were too strange, She had been raised by humans, medical ones at hat. So instead she read lists of diagnostic criteria, things like disruptions of identity, self-damaging impulsivity, emotional instability and mood swings, self mutilating behaviour and recurrent suicidal behaviour. I could have told her it was all me, even the last one. Especially the last one. Maybe all her research was done in self preservation, because she didn’t trust me to save her. I wanted her to die, yes, but like I said before, everything I did was in our best interests. I was just trying to save her. And for the record she tried to kill me first
A novel where the idea of a character struggling with their inner demons is less of a metaphor – and more of a way (an inaccurate way I think the author would say) of me trying to portray the worldview of the book
This interview and particularly the Twitter readers guide is worth reading
A book I enjoyed much more when also listening to the audio version as well as reading David Collard's reading guide. A book I enjoyed much more when also listening to the audio version as well as reading David Collard's reading guide. ...more
The story has a symbolic setting: a peasant village in deep country evocative of 15th-16th Century England. The events of the work take place over oneThe story has a symbolic setting: a peasant village in deep country evocative of 15th-16th Century England. The events of the work take place over one week which includes the harvest festival.
Incredibly evocative book – the writing drips with the atmosphere of Harvest, of the rhythm of seasons and the timelessness of the villagers’ life, of the land and nature as an unceasing master. Key themes are: clearly the Enclosure and the abrupt change it engendered in an almost ageless bucolic lifestyle; creation and the fall – with ideas of labour, banishment, boundary stones, seven days, punishment visited on the innocent; belonging/kinship and exclusion....more
Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer
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