1. 5-a-Day
At the beginning, ‘This one left suddenly’. What’s the effect of not knowing why she left?
‘Things we miss about the one who left suddenly in the night: her laugh which was as loud and sudden as a gas flame igniting in the boiler.’ What technique does Wood use here? Effect?
What’s the effect of writing from the collective perspective of the house spirits ‘we’ and ‘us’?
What can we infer about the house spirits?
‘Nothing is ever exactly the same but it goes back to how it was.’ What is the effect of repeating this line at the end of the story?
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