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London : Vintage, 2005.
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Mary Margaret Hamilton was educated in Scotland. She was born there too. These may not have been the best possible options, but they were the only ones on offer at the time. Although her father did his best, her knowledge of life is perhaps a little incomplete. Margaret knows the best way to look at the moon, how to wake on time and how to breathe fire. Now she must learn how to live. A. L. Kennedy's absorbing, moving and gently political first novel dissects the intricate difficulties of human relationships, from Margaret's passionate attachment to her father and her more problematic involvement with Colin, her lover, to the wider social relations between pupil and teacher, employer and employee, individual and state.
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Short but very readable book. Centred on Margaret, sometimes Maggie, youngish, Scottish, it illuminates various relationships that shape her life. Although much of the book is concerned with the relationship between Margaret and her boyfriend Colin it's the relationship she had with her late father
I enjoyed it very much, in a way it seemed to ramble on without a plot but seemed like a coherent whole by the end of the book.
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that has shaped her and there are other great examples of interactions between co-workers, strangers on trains and so on. I enjoyed it very much, in a way it seemed to ramble on without a plot but seemed like a coherent whole by the end of the book.
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1993
Physical description
256 p.; 18 cm
ISBN
9780749397586
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