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|author=Sarah Forbes
|title=Elspeth Hart and the School for Show-offs
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Imagine, dear reader, a poor girl who is never allowed to play outside like the other children. Instead, she has to spend her day performing horrid chores, like sweeping up mouse-droppings in the creepy, dark cellar and shooing away the cockroaches in the kitchen. So begins a long list of woes for shy Elspeth Hart, who toils tirelessly during the day and spends her nights sleeping in a dusty, cramped wardrobe.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847155952</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sophie Cleverly
|summary=We're taken into the lives of the youthful inhabitants of small town Ireland in seven short stories of differing styles but a shared setting. Barrett writes of a doorman at a suburban nightclub, known and respected by all the locals, although we only read about a brief affair and his vulnerability. Another tale portrays a young rocker and his emotional state, years after an incident that scarred him both physically and mentally and made him the talk of the town. Other tales all share the same focus on people and small but meaningful personal events in their lives.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959742X</amazonuk>
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