![]() ![]() I chose this book because it has won prizes and has been praised by many critics and book bloggers I respect. ![]() Intriguing, thought-provoking, with a good twist. We see the awakening of a child into autonomy under the most twisted of circumstances, breaking free into her world and the world. ![]() Beautifully written, well described reality of living outside of society, with minimum resources and no other human contact. She tells us of her survival in a forest where her father has made her believe is the last place on earth and they are the only survivors. She remembers and tells the story from her point of view, she is an innocent, imaginative little girl, that loves her mama and her papa like all children, and wants to believe in their love. ![]() We meet Peggy, aged 17, in London with her mother, and a younger brother she never knew, till her return from the forest where her father kept her for nine years. This book depicts a particularly cruel and savage war, where a child is taken hostage into the apocalyptic fantasies of her father, and is made to disappear into the wild, into her imagination and her deepest survival instincts. Children are the first victims, when their parents go to war and the abuse is always inflicted with love and merciless brutality. ![]()
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