SuitabookThe Cuckoo Sister
Vivien Alcock
- Reading
- Read together or pause after the stranger arrives. Invite your child to distinguish what Kate hopes is true from what she actually knows, without assuming who the stranger is.
- Themes
- Kate’s hopes and behaviour: Kate longs for Emma and believes her return would end her family’s problems. She describes herself becoming rude, lying and intruding on others’ privacy. Kate’s hopes about Emma sit alongside her account of becoming rude, lying and intruding on others’ privacy.
- Worth knowing
- Kate describes lying, eavesdropping, reading other people’s letters and losing things; she also recalls shouting an accusation about her mother losing her baby. The overview says the family faces further trouble.