I've read this before, but my hubby is having to teach it and the young lady was happy to entertain herself (on my phone, bizarrely by locking herself in my bathroom in the dark, she calls it the dark room and it's currently her favourite place, that - or inside her wardrobe, that is also an icecream shop didn't you know) so I reached out for the nearest thing that I could find. I finished it in a day...
It was quite interesting to read purely because I was reading my husband's colleague's copy, and it had his annotations scribbled all over it. The book is the story of Dave, as a child and the traumatic start to life that he experienced through the neglect and torture that he experienced through his mother. I remember reading it as a teenager and just taking it at face value. It's hard to put down purely because you can't really believe that this could happen to a child and that no-one would pick up on it and report it for ages. However, reading it as an adult, and with the help of comments such as 'Oh dear Lord...', you realise how ridiculous some of the sentences are. It is meant to be written as if it was written by a child, however it is unrealistic that a child would use some words or think so philosophically about what was happening to him. Apparently this is being taught on a week where the students are looking at misery lit. I can't disagree with that description!
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