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One Foot Wrong (2008)

by Sofie Laguna(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1741753988 (ISBN13: 9781741753981)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Allen & Unwin Australia

review 1: My first five-star read for the year. One foot wrong is horrible, beautiful, bewitching, repulsive. Hester is sensitive to all the voices of the world (animate and inanimate), open and trusting and painfully, unliveably literal. She is betrayed by almost everyone around her. Awful things are done to her, but the author makes it impossible to entirely blame those who do them (except the school: I can’t forgive the school for not saving her!) because they’re all so bruised and deranged themselves. The story of this book is one of the bleakest stories ever, but the way it’s told makes it one of the most mystical and beautiful. Why hasn’t Michele Gondry made a film of this book? I would love to be brave enough to write something like this: to enter so thoroughly into a... more character this tender and disturbed and confronting.
review 2: This first person narrative drew me in immediately. Hester is an innocent living with a mentally ill Mother who is also a religious fanatic and an abusive Father who alternately say they love her and call her an aberration. If she sets one foot wrong she can end up in the Hanging Room. Hester has her own set of problems with what can be presumed is schizophrenia and a total lack of knowledge of the world. Her "friends" - spoon, handle, door, tree and the like - talk to her leading her toward salvation and destruction. Not easy to read but worth the effort. less

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