A History of Insects
by Yvonne Roberts
A History of Insects is about a girl of about eight or nine growing up in Pakistan in the days of Empire, getting very friendly with a Pakistani man who works in the household and treating him like a favourite uncle. I think it’s a brilliantly controlled book because you never come out of the character of the child who’s just looking on the adult world in bafflement.
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