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choosy's recommendation of a good reading group book is:
Atonement
choosy's comments are:
Set in Brisbane during the stultifying 1950s, and moving to grubby London in the 1970s,
Feather Man is about Sooky who, ignored and misunderstood by her parents, is encouraged to make herself scarce and visit Lionel, their elderly next door neighbour. After initially befriending Sooky, Lionel moves towards violation.
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This is a book by a writer who has immersed herself in crafting words for many years - her sentences make you smile because she uses language so well. It is spit into four parts - although the book is about a woma, each part has a man's name. Sooky's life is just that - a series of relationships which define her but against which she rails, using humour to be the individual she knows she is underneath. But she is powerless. Read it for yourself. I am sure you will not regret it.
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