A Book of Untruths
A memoir by Miranda Doyle
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"Dismay" - the truth behind Lie 43?

Explore extra material and alternative opinions relating to chapter forty-three of A Book of Untruths, a memoir by Miranda Doyle.

"Dismay"

- The truth behind lie 43? -

 

My mother asked the school to weigh me weekly so as to try and curtail my eating. This is a copy of a letter that she wrote to the headmaster, which concerns the fact that someone seems to have forgotten to record any of my visits, described in lie 41, to the sanitorium.