A girl could stand up - Leslie Marshall Reviews
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Newest Review: ... strange lifestyle easily and becomes close to both uncles. Elray is a trusting and polite child. She too has flights of ... more
... fancy - the scar left on her arm from the accident is her link to the spirit world and through this she 'talks' to her dead parents. All this is related to an eager Rena, a pale Ajax and a gloomy Harwood, who don't quite know what to make of it all …
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The characters are brilliant, diverse and so different in every way that it's impossible to see how they fit together. Yet they do. 'The good times were gathering. We were beating down the sadness. I could feel it'.
Each chapter is a story in itself - part...more
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A girl could stand up - Leslie Marshall: Help: Je suis perdue (996 words)by - written on 12/02/06 (Very useful, 172 readings)
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Elray is celebrating her sixth birthday when her parents die in a freak accident at the fairground's Tunnel of Love. Elray only escapes because she has reached up to touch the moon. She is then sent to live with her two unconventional uncles - Harwood the macho photographer and 'Aunt' Ajax, the cross dresser. Her life completely changes as Elray adapts to her new surroundings, with feuding uncles that don't agree on how to raise their niece. Then Irish lawyer Rena appears, ready to mount a lawsuit against the fairground where the accident occurred. She plays an important role in the unconventional family unit, determined to win her case and ... Read the complete review
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