The Mirror by Lynne Freed

The Mirror

Lynne Freed

Beware - read this and your relationship with your mirror could be about to change!

Extract
I came into that house of sickness just after the Great War, as a girl of seventeen. They were there waiting for me, father and daughter, like a pair of birds, with their long noses and their great black eyes. The girl was a slip of a thing, no more than twelve, but she spoke up for the father in a loud, deep voice. Can you do this, Agnes? Have you ever done that? And the old man sat in his armchair with his watch chain and his penny spectacles, his pipe in his mouth and the little black moustache. Sometimes he said something to the girl in their own language, and then she would start up again. Agnes, do you know how to -
Parallels
  • Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
  • Martin Dressler by Stephen Millhauser
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