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A murder most unladylike series6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() It is a British boarding school mystery that features two whip-smart upper class girls in the pre WWII years. And that’s really more than any ten year old can decipher. The safe English boarding school novel is actually a seething pit of passions, jealousies, shame, regret, and fear of exposure. ![]() But in the end, it is the impenetrable motivations of the untrustworthy adults around them that is the real mystery for protagonists and readers. The two protagonists are sweetly innocent themselves, and like Harriet the Spy, spunky and curious and eager to find a mystery to solve. teachers are having sexual affairs, there are secret illegitimate children, people are murdered to cover up their sexual pasts and from passion and jealousy). These are young teenage characters, who may not know the mechanics of sex or have experienced sexual passion themselves, but they know of its existence, and the mystery turns on the social repercussions of violating the sexual norms of the period (i.e. ![]() ![]() Note: 3rd form in the UK is Not comparable to 3rd grade in the US. Parents should know that in addition to being an engaging mystery, there is a lot that is problematic with regards to how it depicts issues of race, sexuality, body-image, and that a lot of the content is for more mature readers. I know I was supposed to love this book- but. ![]()
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