I love A Long Way from Verona and Bilgewater, and Wall of Words with its wonderful portrayal of sisterly love-hate is one of my favourite children's books ever and my daughter loved it too. Annoyingly I can't find The Middle of the Sandwich to lend to her. The other Tim Kennemore I've got is Changing Times, where the heroine time travels to other bits of her life and discovers that getting pregnant and forcing your boyfriend to marry you rather than going to university would be a really bad idea and that the boyfriend will turn into a controlling patriarchal bastard.
How can you review A Circling Star without mentioning the bit where the seniors whip the younger ones with the whalebone out of their corsets? I had to buy a copy to find out whether my ten year-old self had been imagining it.
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Date: 2012-09-03 10:01 am (UTC)How can you review A Circling Star without mentioning the bit where the seniors whip the younger ones with the whalebone out of their corsets? I had to buy a copy to find out whether my ten year-old self had been imagining it.