If everyone else was wearing her hair over her face, Abigail scraped hers back. She looked like a stick in jeans and a tank top so she would not wear them.
The girls at school said she was a weirdie, and there was no doubt she was an outsider. Outside, she was composed, independent, not very much liked. In her anger at her beloved father for his desertion, she has changed her name from his chosen Lynette to “an old name, a witch’s name” – Abigail.Īnger seethes within Abbie, though she is learning to hide it. This well-written coming-of-age, historical fiction juvenile novel by New Zealand-born Australian writer Ruth Park is deserving of all the awards and rave reviews it has garnered through the years.ġ4-year-old Abigail – Abbie – Kirk is still deeply wounded by the separation of her parents four years earlier. This edition: Puffin (Penguin Australia), 1998.
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