But chota as he was, young Benjamin didn’t lack for bawhawdery – set upon the old launderbuzz with a belaying-pin and beat him with such a will that his life-line was all but unrove. What is most remarkable about Sea of Poppies (2008) is the language:Ī quartermaster lured the boy into the ship’s store with a mind to trying a bit of udlee-budlee. Yet, we still, usually – well, I do – continue to read books about and written by, English-speaking muddle-class whities. This is what novels can do: take us away from what we know and set us down in other worlds, at other times, to see the universe from another angle and hopefully reassess our choices and privilege.
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