Looking Glass Girl by Cathy Cassidy

Author:Cathy Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141357843
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2015-02-10T05:00:00+00:00

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Alice

‘Hello, Alice, it’s Dr Fleet. I’m working with some medical students today, and I’m hoping you won’t object if they help with the routine tests and checks. So, everybody, gather round: this is Alice, who had a very nasty fall on Saturday night. We’ve set some broken bones in her arm and operated to stop a bleed in the cerebral cortex, but she hasn’t come round yet. Don’t you worry, Alice, we plan to fix you up and ship you out of here just as soon as we can; you just have to wake up for us, OK?’

If you have never tried to play croquet with a flamingo, I do not recommend it; the flamingo keeps twisting round to look me in the face, and when I do manage to get it to straighten its neck I find that the croquet ball, which seems to be a hedgehog, has got up and walked away. I can’t say I blame it.

I am not the only one struggling; the garden is filled with party guests: kings, queens, knaves – even the White Rabbit. If you add assorted flamingoes, hedgehogs and playing-card soldiers into the mix, it is a kind of chaos. It makes my head ache.

The Queen of Hearts appears in the distance, her face like thunder. She scans the crowds, her eyes coming to rest on me.

‘Off with her head!’ she roars. ‘Off with her head!’

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