Porky

by Deborah Moggach

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By the author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold HotelAt school they called her Porky on account of the pigs her family kept outside their bungalow near Heathrow. But she felt no different - not until she realised she was losing her innocence in a way that none of her friends could possibly imagine. Only a child robbed of her childhood can know too late what it means to be loved too little and loved too much.… (more)

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"Porky" is Heather's nickname because her father keeps pigs in a field at their ramshackle bungalow just off the A4 near Heathrow Airport. Heather is eleven when her mother has an extended stay in hospital over the birth of her second child, leaving Heather alone with her father at home. A sexual relationship starts between them. As Heather grows up her abuse ends up poisoning everything in her life...

Cultural_Attache | Jul 21, 2018 |

This was a lot more dark and serious than a lot of Deborah Moggach's other work, and I found it a lot more difficult to get into. It was a harder read, too, as very little is actually explained, you have to read between the lines. (

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By the author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold HotelAt school they called her Porky on account of the pigs her family kept outside their bungalow near Heathrow. But she felt no different - not until she realised she was losing her innocence in a way that none of her friends could possibly imagine. Only a child robbed of her childhood can know too late what it means to be loved too little and loved too much.

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