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Anna Carey

The Making of Mollie

It's spring 1912, and 14-year-old Mollie Carberry lives in Drumcondra with her loving but distracted parents, her older sister Phyllis, her spoiled older brother Harry and her saintly little sister Julia. Mollie's convinced that her life is boring — until she discovers that Phyllis is a secret suffragette. After attending a suffrage meeting, Mollie wants to do something for the movement too — and she soon convinces her best friend Nora to join her. At last, they have some excitement in their lives!
While some of their classmates approve of their new cause, others can't see the point. Their timid schoolfriend Stella worries that Mollie and Nora are going to get into trouble. And their classmate Grace, who also happens to be Nora's cousin, disapproves of anybody who steps out of line. Despite this general apathy, as the weeks go by, Mollie and Nora become even more determined to do something for the cause. Even though nobody in the cause seems to particularly want their help.
238 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2016
Publication year
2016
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  • Yana Manukhinahas quoted3 years ago
    ‘I do like him more than I’ve liked any other boy I met,’ I said. ‘But first of all, I’ve barely met any boys, and second of all, I know we’re far too young to think of boys at all. That’s what everyone says. And don’t go on about Juliet again because that was hundreds of years ago. You know things are different in the twentieth century.’ And I wondered what it would be like if everyone thought it was all right for a fourteen-year-old girl to be in love with someone, but I couldn’t really imagine what we’d do if they did.
  • Yana Manukhinahas quoted3 years ago
    I know ‘thou shalt not blackmail’ is not one of the ten commandments, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything about it in the Catechism, but maybe that’s because it’s so bad God didn’t think He had to tell you not to do it (although I suppose you could say the same about killing people, which is definitely worse than blackmail).
  • Yana Manukhinahas quoted3 years ago
    We were practising verbs and learning how to say things like ‘I have sold the pen of my aunt. I am selling the pen of my aunt. I will sell the pen of my aunt’ in French. I don’t know why, but we never seem to learn how to say any useful things in French class (or rather en français, as they say in France. I suppose I have learned something). If I ever tried to sell the pen of Aunt Josephine, she’d probably have me arrested for theft.
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