While Richard was throwing a tantrum and being fussed over by grown-ups, Maud squeezed through a gap in the fence and explored.
Richard is Maud´s brother and I guess he must be younger than her. The only thing I do know about the boy is that he is horrid (it has already been mentioned once or twice).
The writing in this book is weird. It´s told from the perspective of nine year old Maud, but instead of using a first-person perspective, Paver has decided to use third-person perspective. And I don´t think that this works particularly well and the writing just feels off.
So far I´m meh about the story as well. Maud´s father uses her mother as a kind of baby factory. I´m not sure what´s up with that, but I´m sort of disgusted by it.
I think I might give this book a couple of pages more to improve. If it doesn´t, this is going to be a DNF.
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