![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is an evil (maybe?) mesmerist doctor who runs the action, but I don't know why, or what he gets out of it. At the end, once everything is more or less resolved (sort of?), I felt as though the cleverness was being used as a mask for how little sense the plot actually makes. This book feels very clever as you're reading it. Sarah doesn't like it there and doesn't belong, but she thinks there is nothing she can do until Dr Fleet says that perhaps there is, if she will go to the heart of Africa for him - go to Abyssinia. Somewhere else, a girl called Sarah is taken away in a blanket at night, and wakes up in a strange house crowded with things that nobody puts away, where the father is blind and the mother does not speak or look at her two children, and a strange mesmerist-doctor says that they will not get better until their lost daughter is recovered. They have a dollhouse, which they love, though one of the dolls has gone missing, and the newest doll looks sad and as though she does not belong. In 1891, two little girls called Grace and Mary live on a remote Australian property called Abyssinia. This book has one of the most misleading blurbs I've ever seen. ![]()
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