Elspeth Barker's O Caledonia
This was interesting, and beautifully written, but ended up leaving me kind of cold. It starts with the burial of a teenage girl who was murdered, and the prevailing emotion seems to be “good riddance.” And then it flashes back to tell her life story, growing up in Scotland in the 1940s and 50s in an eccentric family, loving animals, loving learning, never fitting in. But I ended up just feeling depressed about it all. B+.
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