Maisie is a small girl caught in the bitter divorce of her careless parents. The court arranges for her to spend half her time with each, and she is passed between them and their new partners and other companions. Told largely through what Maisie sees and half understands, the novel shows an adult world of selfishness and shifting loyalties filtered through a child's growing awareness. It is both comic and sad, and a notable early example of fiction seen through a young mind. Maisie finds unexpected sources of kindness along the way.
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She had grown up among things as to which her foremost knowledge was that she was never to ask about them.