SuitabookFreedom and self-determination
Liberty moves from captivity and restricted knowledge towards an independent search for her destiny.
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Kelly Easton - Author
This is a strange, fairy-tale-inflected escape adventure about a child discovering a wider world after a highly restrictive upbringing. Its appeal lies in Liberty’s unusual circumstances, imaginative discoveries and search for a personally meaningful future.
Everyone has a destiny. Sometimes it takes an adventure to find it.Liberty Aimes has spent all of her ten years captive in her parents' crooked house on Gooch Street. Her spry father, Mal Aimes, is a crook who sells insurance, while her overweight mother sits at home in front of the TV, demanding that Liberty cook nonstop. Liberty's only knowledge of the outside world comes from the secret stash of children's books and fairy tales she discovers beneath the floorboards. One day, Liberty enters her father's forbidden basement laboratory. There she discovers a world of talking animals and magic potions. With the aid of one such potion, Liberty escapes into the world in search of her destiny.From the Hardcover edition.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a strange, fairy-tale-inflected escape adventure about a child discovering a wider world after a highly restrictive upbringing. Its appeal lies in Liberty’s unusual circumstances, imaginative discoveries and search for a personally meaningful future.
Liberty moves from captivity and restricted knowledge towards an independent search for her destiny.
Liberty’s secret children’s books and fairy tales are her only knowledge of the outside world before she encounters magical beings and potions.
Liberty’s father is a crook who sells insurance, while her mother remains at home and demands that Liberty cook nonstop.
Liberty’s captivity, forced domestic responsibility and parents’ troubling behaviour deserve attention.
This is a grounded book brief while Suitabook strengthens the analysis: the current material supports only a cautious reading; another book-specific source is still needed.
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