Girl With Dove: A Life Built By... by Sally Bayley
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by Sally Bayley
The word mesmerising is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove Financial TimesReading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artistBrilliantly original, funny and clever Honor Clark, Spectator, Book of the YearGrowing up in a dilapidated house by the sea where men were forbidden, Sallys childhood world was filled with mystery and intrigue. Hippies trailed through the kitchen looking for God their leader was Aunt Di, who ruled the house with charismatic force. When Sallys baby brother vanishes from his pram, she becomes suspicious of the activities going on around her. What happened to Baby David and the woman called Poor Sue And where did all the people singing and wailing prayers in the front room suddenly goDisappearing into a world of books and reading, Sally adopts the tried and tested methods of Miss Marple. Taking books for hints and clues, she turns herself into a reading detective. Her discovery of Jane Eyre marks the beginning of a vivid journey through Victorian literature where she also finds the kind, eccentric figure of Charles Dickens Betsey Trotwood. These characters soon become her heroines, acting as a part of an alternative family, offering humour and guidance during many difficult moments in Sallys life.Combining the voices of literary characters with those of her real-life counterparts, Girl With Dove reads as a magical series of strange encounters, climaxing with a comic performance of Shakespeare in the childrens home where Sally is eventually sent.Weaving literary classics with a young girls coming of age story, this is a book that testifies to the transformative power of reading and the literary imagination. Mixing fairy tale, literary classics, nursery rhymes and folklore, it is the story of a childs adventure in wonderland and search for truth in an adult world often cast in deep shadow.
ISBN: 9780008226893.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London.
Published Year: 2019.
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