Clues & inference 1
The opening pages of the novel require very attentive reading, since Donoghue has the difficult task of introducing us to the world of a five-year-old isolated in an extraordinary situation - without being clumsy or didactic or out of character for a child. This depends on the accurate detection and understanding of the small details which act as clues to what is going on. Where are these clues, and how do we...