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Cobweb Walking
Cobweb Walking | Sara Banerji
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As a child-so tiny and delicate that her father calls her fairy-Morgan has a special relationship with nature, for she can hear the Silence, the harmonising force that creates and sustains all things. The humming of the Silence is her secret, even from her beloved father, as is the day that she walks along a cobweb. But with adolescence comes a loss of childhood innocence and the intrusion into her perfect world of an unwanted stepmother and baby sister. These loud and chaotic presences, together with an act, as she perceives it, of unwarranted violence by her father, have a traumatic effect on Morgan. Sent by her father to get help-for the family has been trapped in a fall-out shelter for days-Morgan, a dwarf, goes instead on an odyssey into the unknown, seemingly hostile, world outside her home. Mourning the disappearance of magic from her life and realising for the first time that she is physically deformed, Morgan learns that only through love can she regain her empathy with the Silence and the ability to transcend the boundaries that enclose other people. In this, her first novel published in 1986, Sara Banerji has created a work of startling originality and beauty. Full of vivid images, Cobweb Walking is a perceptive story about shattered childhood dreams and the painful awakening to self-awareness.
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monalyisha
Cobweb Walking | Sara Banerji
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The library where I work is nestled at the very bottom of a tall, tall hill. Strangely, my First Love used to live on the tippetty-top of it. I didn‘t have much time for my #bookfitnesschallenge today, so I decided to see what it would feel like to hike up it again. When I got to the summit, I found that the family who‘d bought his house painted it green. 👇🏻

monalyisha 1/1: There was a statue of Saint Francis featured prominently in the garden, which his mother, who was a staunch atheist/Professor of Biology, never would have allowed. The chili pepper lights ringing his back porch were conspicuously absent. But I remembered the burning in my chest & the flush of my cheeks; this time, those feelings came only from scaling the incline. 💖 (edited) 5y
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TheSpineView Hills will do that to you! Keep going! 5y
wanderinglynn Way to go! 🙌🏻 5y
TheBookHippie The shoes !!!!!!!❤️❤️❤️ 5y
Clwojick ❤️❤️❤️ Gotta get that blush on, one way or another 😉😂 5y
Clwojick And yes @TheBookHippie Those shoooooeeeessss! 5y
Caterina Haha love the end of your story 😂 Great job walking up the hill! 5y
BookwormAHN Fantastic story 👏🏻 5y
BarbaraJean Love this post! Great story, wonderfully told, and you‘re rocking super-cute shoes on your walk! 👏🏼🎉 5y
guinsgirlreads This is great 👏🏻! 5y
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