“The gallery Tommy and I were discussing was something we’d all of us grown up with. You almost thought then you could hear the wind rustling the branches, and talking about it seemed to only make things worse.” p50 “The woods played on our imaginatives the most after dark, in our dorms as we were trying to fall asleep. But her ghost was always wandering about the woods, gazing over Hailsham, pining to get back in.” p50 … when she tried to get back in, she wasn’t allowed….something had happened and she’d died. She’d been a Hailsham student until one day she’d climbed over the fence just to see what it was like outside. Another rumour had it that a girl’s ghost wandered through those trees. His body had been found two days later, up in those woods, tied to a tree with the hands and feet chopped off. Once, not so long before we all got to Hailsham, a boy had a big row with his friends and runn off beyond the Hailsham boundaries. “There were all kinds of horrible stories about the woods. “Ghostly dead trunks…’it’s really beautiful.’” p 220 A lot of it was really relaxed, almost idyllic.” p 237 “I don’t want to give the wrong idea about that period at the Kingsfield. “Featureless countryside… near empty road” p216 None of use thought like that in those days.” P114 We certainly didn’t think much about our lives beyond the Cottages, or about who ran them, or how they fitted into the larger world. “We arrived at the Cottages expecting a version of Hailsham for older students, and I suppose that was the way we continued to see them for some time. “People out there were different from us students” p82 “Out there, people were even fighting and killing each other” p82 “One of the boys asked if the fences around the camps had been electrified, and then someone else had said how stranger it must have been, living in a place like that… I went on watching Miss Lucy through all this and I could see, just for a second, a ghostly expression come over here face as she watched the class in front of her.” p77 “Miss Emily…we probably recognised that it was her presence, intimidating thought it was, that made us feel so safe at Hailsham.” P39 And the sight of one in the distance was sometimes enough to cause bedlam during a class” p34
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