‘Matron said I could stay behind during prep to help you unpack,’ she said, looking very pleased. ‘I’m your shadow, by the way. All new girls have a shadow, someone who shows them round and looks out for them and tells them what to d— well, helps them if they don’t know what to do,’ she corrected herself. Edie was glad it was Sally, not Phoebe, who had been appointed to look after her. ‘Miss Fotheringay asked me,’ Sally went on excitedly. ‘I’m the first of the first-years to be made a shadow. The others will have to wait until next year, when we get the next lot of new girls in. I thought she’d ask Alice. She’s the good one – she’s a form monitor.’ Sally sighed. ‘I always seem to be in trouble.’ They set about unpacking Edie’s things. Sally showed her how everything had to be arranged in a particular way – shirts on one side of the wardrobe, dresses on another, toothbrushes on a particular glass shelf in the bathroom – ‘and you’d better get it right, because if anything’s found in the wrong place you’ll be given an order mark.
What do You think about The Glass Bird Girl (2014)?
