Girl with Dove: A Life Built By Books

Sally Bayley, MA 1995

Girl with Dove: A Life Built By Books is a coming of age story about a young girl who escapes into a world of books as a form of survival. There she adopts three literary characters: Miss Marple, Jane Eyre and David Copperfield, and they lead her through a series of real and literary adventures which form the mystery and muddle of her childhood. The climax of this novelised memoir is the child’s decision to leave behind her first family and sign herself into the care of Social Services. But not before she takes her adopted literary relatives with her. Girl with Dove is an immersive literary experience delivered in the voice of a child who turns words into active agents of her fate.

ISBN: ISBN-10 ? : ? 000822689X