So, What Abigail did that Summer

[openidwouldwork]

Learned more about Rivers-of-London London, yay!


Ok, in 'What Abigail did that Summer' I learned that Abigail shows anorectic/self harming behaviour... honestly, they should just offer room and board to a couple of psy bachelors at the Folly, they'd earn their keep by getting everyone to talk and they'd have exellent material for their PhDs!

There are a few people introduced, will be interesting to find out if we meet them again...

A Folly-aware possible spy person, working at the Home Office, offering to pay Abigail to 'work' for her.

Her son, who Abigail strikes up a friendship / adventuring fellowship with. There's something wrong with him, but I can't really put my finger on what exactly, I suspect he's a 'goblin boy' of some sort. He can just open locked doors and there seems to be a low level glamour in his opposition-melting smile... and Abigail gives his mother schooling advice for him at the end of the book that may also imply some mental disability.

Abigail also gets involved with a squad of surveillance/cold war spy networking trained, talking foxes
(who dominate her by moving into her intimate distance immediately, moving into her flat by the end of the book). ((I suppose I'm to old and too much of a country dweller to be enchanted by that)).
But Abigail uses them as her personal cctv/surveillance force, so it's win-win, I guess.


Was a bit of a slog, but somebody on tumblr drew the important bits!

this causes holes in pavement

debrief

Now a RoL comic! *bounce*

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

I don't think that Simon has any powers. He's just a kid with an intellectual disability who happens to be very cheerful, and also a bit weird, and has spent the time other kids would spend playing with friends figuring how to get in and out of places.

[openidwouldwork]

Maybe I'm too suspicious, the way it's worded just reminds me so much of Zach Palmer...

[derien]

I guess she does seem to show anorectic behavior - she claims that being hungry gives her clarity of thinking, which seems just opposite my real world. I wondered if this was a literary device, though. The situation in which I specifically remember her refusing food was when it was offered by someone who wanted to get information out of her. It seemed a parallel to the injunction by Nightingale to Peter that when he was in a setting with a person from the demi-monde, on their turf, where they might be intending to try to glamour or influence him, he should not eat or drink anything until they specifically said that there would be no obligation. (When he's interviewing normal humans he accepts tea happily, because it puts the host at ease.)

[openidwouldwork]

She mentions it in a school context as well, and that she likes to not eat to stay sharp and be in control. (something I have heard form anorectic schoolmates...)

I'm sure it is a literary device, BA does want us to care for her wellbeing, she's the narrator!