LOW EXPECTATIONSStuart Everly-WilsonText PublishingREVIEWED BY ANNE STEVENSThe title sums up 15-year-old Devon’s view of the world. His favourite book is Great Expectations, his hero is not Pip, but the escapee Magwitch, fighting for his life with no expectations. Devon pretends to be a mute to be placed in the remedial class at school where there is no pressure on him. He used to home-school Devon and he gave him a copy of Great Expectations. Devon’s pretense of mutism is not only to keep expectations low but to avoid all the bullying he received in regular classes and give him space to do his own thing.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 14, 2021 03:11 UTC