SuitabookSpilled Water
Sally Grindley
- Reading
- Consider reading together or checking in after the scenes involving her sale and escape. Let the child set the pace, and invite them to pause or talk about what feels difficult.
- Themes
- A child’s agency and adult decisions: Lu Si-yan is sold by her uncle to a household where she is expected to work and later marry the son. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- A parent may wish to consider how a child reader responds to a young girl being sold into domestic service, bereavement in the family and her worsening circumstances after escape.