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One-Eyed Cat - Paula Fox


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One-Eyed Cat - Paula Fox

 
Description: ISBN 0689839707 / Genre: Junior Books / An eleven-year-old shoots a stray cat with his new air rifle, subsequently suffers from guilt, ... more
One-Eyed Cat - Paula Fox ... and eventually assumes responsibility for it.

Newest Review: ... with resentment: “He saw on his father’s face an expression he didn’t like. It was the sympathy that was ... more

 ... often there when he said no to something Ned wanted. The no was bad enough; the sympathy was awful.” And from that careless gift, and the smouldering anger at his father’s rejection of it, comes the beginning of Ned’s shameful secret. He is obsessed by the thought of the gun. Quietly, late at night, he goes to the attic, his heart thudding. He takes the gun out of the house, wanting only to feel its weight on his shoulder, to hold it up to his eye and sight along the barrel, to test what it will be ...more

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Crowned Review One-Eyed Cat - Paula Fox: That Object He Became (1617 words)
by - written on 24/06/01 (Very useful, 614 readings)
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Have you ever had a guilty, shameful secret? One of those that burns and twists inside because you know that you’ve not only let down yourself but your friends or your family to boot? One of those that you’d like to confess but you can’t, not because you fear the consequences or the punishment, but because you couldn’t bear to see that guilt and shame mirrored in someone else’s eyes? One of those that spawns a lie and then another lie and then another lie? Ned Wallis has one of those: “What mattered was that he had a strange new life his parents knew nothing about and one that he must continue to keep hidden from them. ...  Read the complete review

 

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