Really only about halfway through this book, but I am not sure I want to finish. The characters tell their story with little emotional depth, and Harriet's side of the story just sickened me. Who binds their child up with a cord and then hangs them on a hook in an enclosed cupboard to punish th...
I’m not feeling much like talking to the rest of them today. You get tired, you know, looking at the same faces, going over all the same oul’ rigmarole: about the weather that none of us is fit to go out in, and about what’s on the wireless or the TV. Wasn’t it shocking about thon wrecking match ...