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Entertainment Editor (1988 KP) created a video about World of Peppa Pig in Apps

Nov 22, 2017  
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Peppa Pig Episodes - Theme Park gameplay (app demo)

Peppa is visiting the Theme Park, and she wants you to come too! Join Peppa and her friends as they head to the theme park in this official app.

   
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ClareR (5879 KP) rated Demon Copperhead in Books

Jan 21, 2023  
Demon Copperhead
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver | 2022 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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10.0 (1 Ratings)
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This will be one of my very favourite books of 2022, without a shadow of a doubt.

Demon Copperhead is a modern retelling of David Copperfield, which I first read years ago. It’s always stayed with me though (as Dickens books have a habit of doing). Demon Copperhead feels more personal though. It’s not because of the setting, I’ve never been to Appalachia, I’ve never seen a trailer park in the flesh, and I’m certainly lucky enough to have never experienced the opioid crisis that’s very much still ongoing in the US.

Demon is our David, born in a trailer to a mother with an addiction that she desperately tries to control. His father is dead before he’s born. His mother makes some questionable decisions: one is that she marries Stone, a controlling bully, and the reason that Demon is taken into care.

There are so many links to David Copperfield, and I’m glad that I’d read Dickens novel first. But it really isn’t necessary at all. This is a truly magnificent novel in its own right.

Demon’s desperation and depression leaps off the page: his desperate need for love and approval, and his eventual descent into addiction were so terribly sad to read. I felt I built a connection with Demon and wanted more for him than society was willing to give. He was given to foster parents who weren’t vetted and were unsuitable. No-one cared enough to help him, and by the time they did, he was past being able to accept their help - he just didn’t think he deserved it.

But there is ultimately hope. There is the chance for Demon to live a good life.

I adored this book. I’m a big Barbara Kingsolver fan anyway, but this just confirmed that for me.
I’m hoping that this book will point more people towards her books. They’re in for a treat!