ABSTRACT
Living your life is a long and doggy business…. And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.
(Goggle-Eyes: 139) This is Anne Fine talking. It is not Anne Fine ‘straight’, of course; it is the voice of Kitty, the narrator of Goggle-Eyes, and she is telling us what good stories are for. Kitty is quoting her teacher, so we are already at two steps’ remove from Anne Fine herself; and the teacher’s name is Mrs Lupey-‘Loopy’ to the teenage girls in her charge: another layer of disguise. If it is messages you are looking for, they are not going to be handed you on a plate.
