What are five facts about you?
- I’m an orphan; my parents and older sister died in a car crash. I survived.
- My guardian is a vicar and I live with him and his family. It’s awful.
- I try to read 50 books a year – sometimes more if I’ve got time.
- I want to be a lawyer when I’m older
- I’m fat – and no one ever lets me forget it.
Where did you grow up?
I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Norfolk in a tiny village called North Creake. Crisp frosty mornings over meadows, an abundance of woodland, and field after field of rapeseed in the summer; it was idyllic but only aesthetically. I was shipped off to boarding school as soon as I turned eleven. That place, the place I grew up, it’s not home.
Who are the special people in your life?
…I would say my sister but she’s not around anymore. My mother but she’s gone too. I don’t believe I have any special people in my life.
Would you rather…go swimming or run naked across the campus field?
Since I can’t swim and I’m terrified of water I’d have to pick the latter but honestly, I’d rather die than do either.
Desert Island: Three Items
- Books
- My cello
- A pen that never runs out
What’s something you wish you were better at?
Making friends…but then again, no one ever wants to be friends with me so why should it be up to me?
What’s something you’re proud of?
Learning to play cello. It’s not the instrument I would have liked to have learned but my guardian, Rupert insisted and oddly, I’m actually quite good. It’s an escape for me too…when I play, nothing else exists.
What’s something you’re ashamed of?
My weight. I’m disgusting.
What are you looking forward to right now?
The end of term so I can leave this place. Not that returning to North Creake is much better but at least only Rupert calls me fat there and not everyone.
Pick 3 Dinner Guests, dead or alive
Just three? That’s impossible. I want Ada Lovelace and Millicent Fawcett and J R R Tolkien and George Orwell! And my mum…can I have my mum, please, too?
What brought you to Hillside Academy?
My guardian, Rupert, who couldn’t stand the sight of me anymore. I was a burden. Where do all burdens go?
Favourite Word?
Lux Brumalis – a Latin word which means ‘the light of winter’
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