![]() ![]() She has also rejected the attentions of Somebody McSomebody who cannot believe that he has been rejected. He wants her and his attentions bring threats and the sense of being stalked. But it is clear that he already knows everything about her, including her relationship with Maybe-Boyfriend, her evening classes, her family (including those who have brought shame on the community). Her habit of walking along reading books from the 19 thcentury or earlier has led her to beyond the pale.īut she has also attracted the attention of milkman, a major renouncer. ![]() But she comes to see that no action, including avoidance, is beyond the community’s interpretation and judgement. Our narrator attempts to live her life outside the complications of this place and its influences. The city is patrolled by armed forces from the state over the water. ![]() The streets around her home are dominated by renouncers with their own rules and kangaroo courts. ![]() She appears to live in the Ardoyne area and was therefore born into a Catholic family. It is narrated by a girl of 18 who lives in the 1970s in a city that seems to be Belfast, but is not named in the novel (any more than our narrator is). This novel is partly an account of coming of age, or at least coming to her senses in a dangerous situation. ![]()
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