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Girl with dove : a life built by books / Sally Bayley.
Van Pelt Library PR6102.A974 Z46 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bayley, Sally, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bayley, Sally.
- Books and reading.
- Bayley, Sally--Books and reading.
- Bayley, Sally--Anecdotes.
- Books and reading--Anecdotes.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 270 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : William Collins, 2018.
- Summary:
- Growing up in a dilapidated house by the sea where men were forbidden, Sally's 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 Sally's 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 go?Disappearing 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 Sally's life.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elsie de Renzo Orlando Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780008226862
- 0008226865
- OCLC:
- 1042590644
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