In 1970s Leicestershire, Lizzie Vogel is nine when her father decides that ‘he was now in love with Phil from the factory’. Not long after her parents' separation, heralded by an awkward scene involving a wet Daily Telegraph and a pan of cold eggs, nine-year-old Lizzie Vogel, her sister and little brother and their now divorcée mother are packed off to a small, slightly hostile village in the English countryside. Among their certainties is the belief that men are compulsive snackers: "If there was one thing I knew for definite about men it was that they cannot perform sex if hungry. The thing I found most disturbing was the casual cruelty of the characters, and the neglect shown the children by both parents for the majority of the book.

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A few passages coil toward melodrama, and one inelegant line after a rape seems jarringly modern, but the spell holds fast.

The sisters' view of men is undeceived: "My sister said it wasn't that having a man was good, but that not having one was bad. On-the-job training at sea is critical to a helmsman developing ability to "sense" or anticipate how a ship will respond in different conditions.

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So little Lizzie and her siblings move to a small village, you know the ones, where everyone knows your business? An extraordinarily well-written, deeply satisfying read about an unusual, highly entertaining group of people. Mi sono lanciata, quindi, sul questo libro certa di ritrovarvi la stessa atmosfera e lo stesso spirito.Also, there is that one scene that catches you unaware while riding the bus to work on a Friday morning and you burst into tears. Taking the social organization of work into account in human-machine systems design," by Peter Carstensen, Morten Nielsen, and Kjeld Schmidt.