But the whole time they are plotting was just so unsettling for me to read because I read it from the perspective of the girl who goes walking along the same route, feeling perfectly safe, having no idea that the boys in her village are watching and plotting and think nothing about her. Some people think this is kind of humorous because the girl simply slaps the boys and they all run away like big scaredy-cats. I could then medium enjoy the vignettes contained within until.late in the book a group of boys plan to gang rape a local girl. But eventually I got used to the gravelly old man voice and even if I didn't grow to like it, at least it didn't bother me as much. Oh what a lovely description of growing up in a small Cotswold village after WWI, where times were simpler and-SCREECH-Hey lads, who wants to plan a gang rape! When I started this I thought the worst thing I would have to say about it was that "authors shouldn't automatically be allowed to read their own works." And how.
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