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Told in the first person by Sal, a 13 year old, this is the story of her planned escape from her abusive stepfather and alcoholic mother. She has been forced to grow up before her time, and to look after her sister Peppa as well as her mother, and once the stepfather threatens to start abusing her younger sister Sal knows it is time to get away. The escape is meticulously planned, and her preparations are described in great detail -which became almost tedious, but was probably there to make the
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