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![]() ![]() She explores the marshlands and is particularly compelled by a lovely old house that looks out onto the creek and the straithe. Once in the marshy country, Anna is given an enviable degree of freedom. It certainly makes more sense for her to be there than spend the last six weeks of term in the prison that is school. The family doctor has stated that the air there may well do her good. After being away from school for two weeks, suffering from asthma that is likely psychosomatic in nature, Anna is sent by her foster parents, the Prestons, to stay with the Peggs, an endearing, warm couple who live in Little Overton in the fen country. She hates the mother who left her to go off on a holiday with a second husband, only to die along with this man in a car crash, and she also hates the grandmother she was left with for dying soon after. Her characteristic expression is the “ordinary” face: an appearance of indifference and haughty detachment. Unable to connect with the other children at school or bond with the older foster parents she’s lived with for some years, she is profoundly unhappy. ![]() she knew that now-it was something to do with how you were feeling inside yourself.”Īnna is around ten and absolutely friendless. It was nothing to do with there being other people, or whether you were ‘an only’, or one of a large family. She turned and began running back along the dyke, thinking how strange it was-about being ‘inside’ or ‘outside’. ”It was raining harder now and she was beginning to get wet, but it did not matter. ![]()
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