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True Murder
True Murder | Yaba Badoe
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Eleven year old Ajuba has been abandoned at a Devon boarding school by her Ghanaian father. Haunted by the circumstances of her mother's breakdown, Ajuba falls under the spell of new girl Polly Venus, and her chaotic, glamorous family. As the passionate bond between the two girls deepens, they discover what they think are the bones of dead kittens, hidden in the attic of the Venus home; but the bones are human. The girls set out to unravel the mystery but as the summer draws to a close, three tragedies conflate, with catastrophic results.
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True Murder | Yaba Badoe
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Three favourite novels #setinaschool for #booktober ! True Murder tells a gothic story of a girl from Ghana in a British boarding school, and its final lines make me shiver even during rereads. Tam Lin follows a bookish young woman through her four years at a Midwest liberal arts college, at which the Classics department happens to be a fairy court. And Gaudy Night is a feminist classic, ostensibly a mystery set at a woman's college in Oxford.

Leniverse Gaudy Night! 8y
RealLifeReading Oh yes! Tam Lin! 8y
[DELETED] 3206156174 I loved Tam Lin - such a great choice! I'll have to look up the others. 8y
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