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Walter stood where he was, biting his lip. Jem and I gave up, and we were nearly to the Radley Place when Walter called, 'Hey, I'm comin'!' Safely out of range, he turned and shouted: 'Report and be damned to ye! Ain't no snot-nosed slut of a schoolteacher ever born c'n make me do nothin'! You ain't makin' me go nowhere, missus. You just remember that, you ain't makin' me go no¬where P By the time you get to the next stop, you've convinced yourself that everything will be fine. But you soon start to panic, because there aren't two children waiting for you on the platform. There's only one. As I opened the front screen door Atticus said, 'By the way, Scout, you'd better not say anything at school about our agreement.' No I can't,' said Atticus. 'I have to make a living. Besides, they'd put me in jail if I kept you at home – dose of magnesia for you tonight and school tomorrow.'

Miss Caroline inspected her roll-book. 'I have a Ewell here, but I don't have a first name . . . would you spell your first name for me?' Irene es la madre tóxica por excelencia. No ve nada positivo en una hija que no quiso tener y a la que siempre ha considerado una carga. Es mezquina e interesada, dispuesta a vender su historia al mejor postor. This sharply observed novel manages to be at once an intricate puzzle and an involving race against time' The Sunday Times Si hay algo que valoro en este género es la sorpresa, y este libro lo ha conseguido. La autora ha ido desmontando mis hipótesis conforme avanzaba en cada capítulo.

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It's against the law, all right,' said my father, 'and it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief cheques on green whisky his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit.'

Calpurnia bent down and kissed me. I ran along, wondering what had come over her. She had wanted to make up with me, that was it. She had always been too hard on me, she had at last seen the error of her fractious ways, she was sorry and too stub¬born to say so. I was weary from the day's crimes. With a genuinely terrifying opening, fans of Big Little Lies will enjoy this slice of twisty domestic noir with a distinct south Dublin flavour." - Sinéad Crowley The Irvines, who are quite well off await a ransom demand that never comes and Marissa’s anguish is palpable. Jenny is feeling guilty as it is her nanny who is to blame and the local gossip mongers are vicious in their assessment that Jenny didn’t do her due diligence in choosing this nanny even though she did. Jenny does what she can to help the Irvines to assuage her feelings of guilt but there is no progress. I told Atticus I didn't feel very well and didn't think I'd go to school any more if it was all right with him. Tres mujeres forman el reparto principal: Marisa, Jenny e Irene. Además, hay bastantes personajes secundarios que harán las delicias del lector. Nos podemos encontrar desde personajes que odias hasta otros que anhelas en tu vida. Es muy variopinto el reparto y tiene cierta similitud con la realidad. Hay muchas Sarahs en el mundo.You can't do that, Scout,' Atticus said. 'Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases. In your case, the law remains rigid. So to school you must go.' Have you ever been punched in the face by a book? Well, I've been repeatedly and unapologetically punched in the face by this one and I have to say I loved every minute of it! By late afternoon most of my travelling plans were complete; when Jem and I raced each other up the sidewalk to meet Atticus coming home from work, I didn't give him much of a race. It was our habit to run to meet Atticus the moment we saw him round the post office corner in the distance. Atticus seemed to have forgotten my noontime fall from grace; he was full of questions about school. My replies were monosyllabic and he did not press me. Well, Burris,' said Miss Caroline, 'I think we'd better excuse you for the rest of the afternoon. I want you to go home and wash your hair.' Atticus said the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations. None of them had done an honest day's work in his recollection. He said that some Christmas, when he was getting rid of the tree, he would take me with him and show me where and how they lived. They were people, but they lived like animals. 'They can go to school any time they want to, when they show the faintest symptom of wanting an education,' said Atticus. 'There are ways of keeping them in school by force, but it's silly to force people like the Ewells into a new environ¬ment —'