zanthewitch
Busy babbling when should be reading
Joined: 22 Jul 2006
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Birthday: 6th May
Location: Midlands
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 Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:12 am Post subject: When Daddy comes home by Toni Maquire |
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This is the sequel to Don't tell Mummy.
It's not quite such an easy read as she pops backwards and forwards in time (more in the first few chapters). She also swaps from the first person, to second person in her style. Having said that it's a book you NEED to read, harrowing as it is to imagine her teenage life you kind of have to read it to get through it if you know what I mean.
Particularly moving is her depiction of her time in a Mental hospital, the descriptions of shock therapy (ECT) the smell of Peraldehyde all bought it to life for me. Back in the early 1970's I worked in a severe mental hospital for a time. We did indeed lock the patients into wooden chairs, sedate the life out of them & subject them to electrical shocks.
You are left at the end of this book wondering who wronged her more - her Father, her Mother or the state.
It's not 'The Bell Jar' - but some of it has that feel to it.
Overall I's give this one 7/10.
Zan
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