“‘No girl has ever had a taller, livelier companion than my shadow,’ thought Victoria, and she breathed deeply and spread her arms, and her shadow breathed with her and spread crooked arms…”
This is a perfect little terrifying gem and yet another discovery by this book. The tale of Victoria who wanted to join the select group at boarding school by “a feat Daring, Deadly, and Done-never-before.”
I dare not tell you more about the plot of the story because the story is wholly its own daring, deadly, done-never-before plot.
A brief personal aside: I see the select group already comprises Amanda, Miranda, Amelia and Cordelia. And now Victoria? You will see, depending on what she left behind in the shape of her anonymous self. At least she had the qualification of an ‘a’ at the end of her name! A name is the shadow of us all, a blend with the person it names as done-never-before?
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