The Unlit Lamp
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You are Joan Ogden, taking the blame for a dropped teacup so your father's temper has somewhere safe to land, in a house where your mother treats his moods as a job the family shares. Years on, your tutor Elizabeth Rodney has you copying out a Cambridge scholarship notice on the cliff path, promising a life your parents never intended you to want. You bring the papers home; your father orders them burned and banishes Elizabeth; your mother, more frightened than angry, pockets the form and sends you upstairs alone.
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- The Form Beneath the Lesson BookLeaside