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Study for obedience / Sarah Bernstein.

Study for obedience / Sarah Bernstein.
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ISBN 9781803511221 (paperback)
9781783789931 (hardback)
Name Bernstein, Sarah, (Literature teacher) author.
Title Study for obedience / Sarah Bernstein.
Published London : Granta, 2023.
©2023
Description 192 pages ; 21 cm
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193).
Summary A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people. Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property. Inside the house, although she tends to her brother and his home with the utmost care and attention, he too begins to fall ill...
Subjects Hostility (Psychology) -- Fiction
Rural conditions -- Fiction
Siblings -- Fiction
Suspicion -- Fiction
Young women -- Fiction
Reservations Queue 1
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