Re-reading these chapters I found myself most startled at finding that Ann has curly hair (which she attacks with violence!). I'd always pictured it as straight, but then I think I have trouble picturing most of the Marlows from the descriptions given, e.g. squirrel-eyed Ginty.
I do like the way all the main plot/theme elements seem to just click into place so early on - the play, the netball team, the shifting relationships between Nicola and Lawrie (and Tim, and Miranda, and Esther), the role religion. It comes across so effortlessly. (I do, however, mentally picture Forest as a ruthless rewriter. Possibly this is actually mentioned in one of the GGB editions?)
Lawrie's religious ignorance will be picked up later in her conversation with Madame Orly. Is it plausible?
I always found it very plausible. Then again, I remember being one of a class of 14 year olds asked to speak in turn about Islam; the first girl announced that "it was a very hot, dry country", and we were about a third of the way round the class with expansions on its location, borders, customs, exports etc etc, before a more clued-up classmate managed to correct us.
I like Cromwell, by the way, but I do feel for Lawrie when she makes such a mess of things on her first day.
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Date: 2014-08-31 08:33 am (UTC)I do like the way all the main plot/theme elements seem to just click into place so early on - the play, the netball team, the shifting relationships between Nicola and Lawrie (and Tim, and Miranda, and Esther), the role religion. It comes across so effortlessly. (I do, however, mentally picture Forest as a ruthless rewriter. Possibly this is actually mentioned in one of the GGB editions?)
Lawrie's religious ignorance will be picked up later in her conversation with Madame Orly. Is it plausible?
I always found it very plausible. Then again, I remember being one of a class of 14 year olds asked to speak in turn about Islam; the first girl announced that "it was a very hot, dry country", and we were about a third of the way round the class with expansions on its location, borders, customs, exports etc etc, before a more clued-up classmate managed to correct us.
I like Cromwell, by the way, but I do feel for Lawrie when she makes such a mess of things on her first day.