![]() ![]() She also learns how the girls of Thornhill make Mary’s life a living hell. ![]() Ella learns more and more about Mary and her hobby of making dolls out of clay and designing clothes for them. Ella Clarke has just moved into a flat that backs up to the abandoned estate, lonely and disheartened from the loss of her mother, with her dad always working late. The second story, told in pictures (like Hugo Cabret,) is told from the viewpoint of a girl in the summer of 2017 who sees a mysterious figure in the overgrown, weed-infested grounds of Thornhill. She can’t It’s a painful vulnerability to speak, especially when she is surrounded by such hostile cruelty. The psychiatrists call it selective mutism. Mary has been affected by whatever is in her past. ![]() The girl who torments Mary is never named, only referred to as her in the diary. She lives in a home for girls, having lost her family, and is tormented around the clock by a bully with gorgeous locks of blonde curls who keeps getting sent back to the orphanage when families do not choose to adopt her. The story unfolds through the diary of a girl named Mary Baines, written in 1982. ![]() This is both a graphic novel and a book, weaving one story in graphic format and another in prose. ![]()
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