![]() ![]() But there was nothing really so wrong or terrible about my appearance. ![]() I always buttoned my jackets and blouses as high as they could go. I wore heavy wool skirts that fell past my knees, thick stockings. She also hints that the time she is reflecting on was also the brief lead up to when she left her hometown, ‘X-ville’ New England, a time when it seems Eileen was frankly pretty much as sick of the town as she was herself.Īnd back then – this was fifty years ago – I was a prude. Back then she lived with her neglectful (to put it mildly) father and worked at the local correctional facility for men. In what we can only guess is the present day, Eileen Dunlop takes us back to the 1960’s when she was not long past the cusp between girlhood and womanhood. Penguin Press, hardback, 2015, fiction, 272 pages, kindly sent by a lovely friend from the USA (also available in here in the UK from Vintage Books) ![]()
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