Ada imagines herself as a different person to the one life has casted her as. Her aunt acts as a catalyst to the start of Ada’s reinvention, providing funds for a trip to Italy for a course on Arts and Culture. Ada sees a way of inveigling herself into the privileged way of life that all the other attendees have as their birth right.
The book tackles the class differences and trouble that lies ahead when someone seeks to be someone they are not. Lies, deceit and mislead. What are the differences between these words? A question posed by the interviewees at the Oxford college Ada aspired to be a student at.
Lies, deceit and mislead underpins this story and they weave their way through from the start to the end. Ada’s mother wants her daughter to be happy and tries to manage her expectations and attempts to keep Ada grounded. Ada’s dreams take her on a very different path potentially sacrificing integrity to get what she wants. How culpable is Ada, that’s for you to decide.
The book tackles the class differences and trouble that lies ahead when someone seeks to be someone they are not. Lies, deceit and mislead. What are the differences between these words? A question posed by the interviewees at the Oxford college Ada aspired to be a student at.
Lies, deceit and mislead underpins this story and they weave their way through from the start to the end. Ada’s mother wants her daughter to be happy and tries to manage her expectations and attempts to keep Ada grounded. Ada’s dreams take her on a very different path potentially sacrificing integrity to get what she wants. How culpable is Ada, that’s for you to decide.