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|title=Broken Biscuits
|author=Liz Kettle
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=256
|publisher=Penguin Books Ltd
|date=April 2007
|isbn=978-0141025827
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Jodie is not ill, just lonely.
As we follow Jodie's present struggle, we're led back into Agnes' past through vignettes in time 2001, 1986, 1985, 1976, 1968, 1949, 1938, 1934... key memories, each of which provokes and leads back to the moment, the years, before.
It could be argued that this device is becoming over-used at the moment, but for once, the author does at least hold the backwards-narrative together. Each memory that surfaces, leads logically to its predecessor. There is none of the disjointedness that you might find in, say, Sarah Waters ( [[''The Night Watch]]''). The questions raised by each encounter are answered by its predecessor as though you'd actually asked them.
Slowly then, we learn the whole family history, through the grandmother, while the grand-daughter struggles to deal with the consequences of it... until their courses collide.
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|name=Magda
|verb=said
|comment= I would like to know what her 'condition' is, did you miss it out on purpose to avoid labelling prejudices?
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|name=Lesley
|verb=replied
|comment= In answer to the question, by 'condition' I meant all of the things I'd already described her as: "inept...certain of her views, but not necessarily totally clued up. She sounds angry, insistent, frightened, vulnerable" and the things that I subsequently describe her as. But in a sense, yes, I deliberately avoided putting a specific label on it, because part of the plot revolves around the unravelling of precisely who, what, "where" she is.
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