The poor child is even incapable of tears, she is so broken and unloved, and believes this to be further proof of her fairy-folk origins (as well as the coincidental(?) effects of an unfortunate schoolyard incident). Thanks to the toxic femininity surrounding her, she also grows up believing herself to be a 'changeling', and, tragically, like all children, takes to heart all of the judgments passed on her by other adults. I feel it's quite 'on trend' for the present moment, despite being written in 1976: Donul (born 'Alexandra') eschews her feminine identity altogether and works hard to become a boy (this following rejection and consequential abandonment by an unloving mother when she was born a girl being raised primarily by a spiteful, gossiping old b*tch of a housekeeper, who constantly judges and labels and derides her (and everyone else - a toxic female for sure) and only really feeling accepted by an elderly shepherd and his bachelor son who tend to Donul's absent Canadian father's lands). :)īeyond the Boundary is a bittersweet and atypical coming-of-age story set in Galloway, Scotland. It's public, and if you're looking at this book, you're the sort of person we'd like to hear from.
) in the Forgotten Vintage Children's Lit. I've already partially reviewed this book here (.
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