Books by Nell Leyshon
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review 1: What a chilling, tragic book! It took me quite a while to get into the book, and to adjust to Mary's voice. But it proved masterful in the end--Leyshon does a nice job of revealing the truth in pieces, even as Mary tells her truth as it happens. A chilling end that leaves me dist...
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review 1: La couleur du laitEn cette année 1831, Mary, une fille de 15 ans entame le tragique récit de sa courte existence : un père brutal, une mère insensible et sévère, en bref, une vie de misère dans la campagne anglaise du Dorset. Simple et franche, lucide et impitoyable, elle raconte...
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review 1: I was unsure about this book initially. I had reservations about the lack of punctuation! however once I started reading it I just couldn't put it down.comment re this app - it is frustrating that I can't pick UK edition on my account - the US cover really doesn't do the book an...
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review 1: It was promised that this book would both charm me and crush me, and indeed it delivered on both counts. It is a very unique book in my opinion, written in the form of a diary by a young girl who, just at the age of 15, learned to read and write. So the prose is stilted and rou...