Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and rebellion are closely followed by revenge and embarrassment.
The Pyramid of Amirah
β Scribed by Kelly, James Patrick
- Publisher
- Feedbooks (http://www.feedbooks.com)
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 17 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Surrounded by boxes of goody-goody bars, her only food, Amirah lives alone in what was once her parentβs house. Its her home now, and sheβs honoured to become a pyramid girl. During the day she vacuums up the limestone dust that drifts down onto every flat surface, at night she leaves the lights on all the time, even when she sleeps. As the years pass the light bulbs start to burn out one-by-one and Amirah wonders if the meaning of her living entombment will ever come.
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