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Mary is the newly orphaned daughter of absentee colonial parents. She has been used to being left quite alone. And mostly 'brought up', if that's the word for such an impoverished childhood, by the very people whom her parents have been the most highly complicit in oppressing - servants.
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The moon, the sea, footprints in the sand and Martin Waddell's beautifully cadenced reminder of what childhood, and parenthood, can be at its best. Awe and wonder.

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'Not Now, Bernard', now a picture book classic, tells the tale of young Bernard and the grumpy monster at the bottom of the garden.

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“[The] real quest in The Physics of Sorrow is to find a way to live with sadness, to allow it to be a source of empathy and salutary hesitation… Chronicling everyday life in Bulgaria means trying to communicate Bulgarian “sadness,” which is—to the extent that these things can be disentangled—as much
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