The Reading List #17
I completely lost track of time this weekend and didn’t post this on Saturday. I had a lovely relaxing weekend full of food and laziness, and it was fabulous! Anyway, here is the latest instalment of my reading list… One Foot Wrong, Sofie Laguna This is such a unique novel. As I read so much, and so widely, and studied literature at university, it’s very rare that I find a book that doesn’t at all remind me of anything else. This, however, filled that gap. It is told through the perspective of an 18 year-old girl who has a very limited vocabulary and a mind underdeveloped for her age. When Hester enters mainstream schooling, she begins to learn new things, and that there are certain things she cannot tell her parents. One huge secret grows throughout the novel until she makes a break for freedom. The voice of the novel was well-crafted, and sustained brilliantly, which is something that can be very difficult to get right. It’s really quite eerie, as you begin to rea...