Our protagonist recalls her youth, some 30 years later having lived an unconventional life - in the shadow of her beautiful mother and her need to be unconventional in an isolated once-wealthy-but-now-living in poverty.
I found her words full of melancholy as she recalls at the tender age of 12 the realisation that their dreams of visiting far off lands will never come about. All this and we have not yet come to the interesting part of the story...
I found her words full of melancholy as she recalls at the tender age of 12 the realisation that their dreams of visiting far off lands will never come about. All this and we have not yet come to the interesting part of the story...