This obnoxious child is even rude to her imaginary friends! Maggie doesn't seem to learn anything through the course of the book. (This is clarified on the last few pages.) But I found the repetitive scenes with Maggie's imaginary friends "the Blackwood girls" boring and irritating. For most of the book, is somewhat ambiguous whether the dolls are actually alive, or if we are merely witnessing the active imagination of a lonely child. Once in the monstrous home of the aunts, which is a former boarding school, Maggie begins to hear voices, eventually finding her way to an attic room where she engages in conversations with two antique dolls who have been forgotten up there. She has a highly entertaining and eccentric uncle who shows up occasionally, like a breath of fresh air, as he is the only character in the book who is actually likable. But it all fell flat for me.īehind the Attic Wall introduces an unlikable orphaned girl who is sent to live with two equally unlikable aunts. It won several notable awards and citations. Looks like most Library Thing reviewers liked this book, as did most critics.
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