The Things We Thought We Knew
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11. Why do you think that the author chose the title The Things We Thought We Knew for this book?
12. At the end of the novel, Jonathan asks Ravine who she thinks is to blame, and she says:
‘I think carefully about his question. I see the image of Mrs Dickerson unconscious on your sofa, Uncle Walter disappearing down the side of the hill, Amma standing with the Soul-drinker by the taxi that night.
“Everyone we knew,” I say.’
What is the novel saying about responsibility?
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About the Author
Mahsuda Snaith is the winner of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2014 and the Bristol Short Story Prize 2014, and a finalist in the Mslexia Novel Writing Competition 2013. She lives in Leicester, where she leads writing workshops and teaches part-time in primary schools. Mahsuda is a fan of reading (obviously) and crochet (not so obviously). This is her first novel.
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First published in Great Britain in 2017 by Doubleday
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