![]() ![]() The parallels with Peter Pan - which we later learn Wendy's read from a book hidden beneath another dust jacket and a Neverland poster affixed to her wall - are very well struck, as are the marked departures. This is such an important book, and it's so deftly done by writer and artist alike. Wendy, come with us, the clouds seem to say. ![]() They all reach the surface, gasping for air, but Michael doesn't stop there, flying up into the stormy sky. There is a frantic struggle, breath escaping in bubbles, as the car's headlights sink from view. Tetchily Wendy shouts at him and, perhaps reaching for his headphones with her right hand, her left pulls hard on the steering wheel and the car careens into the lake. In the passenger seat her other, bespectacled brother Michael is listening to music through headphones, though it's evidently still loud. In the back seat sits her younger brother John, immersed. Then imagine trying to live with it.ฤก6-year-old Wendy Davies is driving her car late one summer's night in New England. Imagine the worst mistake you could ever make. The water is dark and evidently deep, the girl and two boys helpless, unconscious, their arms and legs all akimbo. Three figures float, silhouetted and suspended underwater. ![]() Man has been crossed out and replaced by girl an 's' has been prefixed to he. The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story but writes another. ![]()
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