Mister Pip
On a Papua New Guinean island in the grip of a civil war, the children's only teacher, a reclusive white man called Mr Watts, reads aloud from Dickens's Great Expectations. Thirteen-year-old Matilda comes to feel Pip is a friend, until soldiers arrive and the book itself becomes dangerous. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, it asks what a story does for the people who hold on to it.
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- alludes to ↑ Great Expectations
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