The Matchbox Girl by Alice Jolly review – horror, humanity and Dr Asperger

27 novembre 2025 | Natasha Walter
The reader grapples with fascism and complicity through the eyes of a mute autistic girl being treated during the second world war As I started reading Alice Jolly’s new novel, whose narrator is a mute autistic girl in wartime Vienna, I realised that I was resisting its very premise. I am (…)
 Site référencé:  The Guardian (Asia Pacific)

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