![]() ![]() Yet this restricted perspective provides the reader with the opportunity to come to realisations that are not available to Jimmy. Jimmy’s father is an alcoholic, who is often violent towards Jimmy’s doting, but increasingly unwell, mother.īoth because he is a child and because he is intellectually different, Jimmy only has a limited understanding of what happens after his father reaches for the Cutty Sark. In Laguna’s novel, a boy with learning difficulties named Jimmy Flick narrates his working-class family life. Several best-selling novels published since 2000, including Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and Emma Donoghue’s Room, present challenging and sometimes disturbing events from the viewpoint of child narrators. What does Sofie Laguna’s The Eye of the Sheep, named as the winner of the Miles Franklin Award last week, share with Great Expectations and To Kill a Mockingbird? All of these novels unfold, at least in part, through the perspective of a child narrator. ![]()
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