Apologies: All
The now familiar book group polarity: Shubha "loved, loved, loved it"; I sound it "dreadfully dull".
When we, finally, gathered and discussed this, it became clear that I was alone in finding this a rather pedestrian telling (and then this ... and then that ... and then ...) of a tragic but too common childhood of a certain time. However, to coin and bastardise a phrase, I am clearly on the wrong side of literature here because Clinton and Obama as well as Farrell, Crew, Banerjee, Mason and Buckley all disagree with me.