Hopscotch av Hilary Fannin

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<p>¿Quite brilliant; beautifully, cleverly observed; funny, heart-breaking.¿ ¿ Roddy Doyle<br><br>Hilary is four, not yet five, and she has a mother and a father and an older brother and sisters. She even has a name at home ¿ Billy ¿ that is different from her written-down name. But now that she is in Low Babies in the local convent school, it seems Hilary has something else called responsibilities. <br>The world is a changing place. Hilary¿s parents, themselves products of a country bathed in sanctifying grace, and presided over by leather-strapped Christian Brothers, wimpled nuns, and a strictly ingrained moral code, start to question their own life choices. As she begins to mature, Hilary¿s perspective shifts from a confusing mosaic of half-understood conversations, bizarre rules and surreal religious symbolism, to a growing awareness of the eccentricities of the adult world around her, where money is tight, ideas are unorthodox and where living life to the full is the goal.<br>As h