You get a good flavour of the writing in The Girl with the Louding Voice from its opening paragraphs: This morning, Papa call me inside the parlour. He was sitting
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One has mouldy cereal in his beard and revoltingly hairy ears; the other has a glass eye and a possible case of the dreaded shrinks. Their domestic life involves frogs
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