A Long Way from Verona

By: Jane Gardam

Fiction

‘i ought to tell you at the beginning that i am not quite normal having had a violent experience at the age of nine' jessica vye's 'violent experience' colours her schooldays and her reaction to the world around her- a confining world of order marks, wartime restrictions, viyella dresses, nicely-restrained essays and dusty tea shops. for jessica she has been told that she is 'beyond all possible...