Then you expose these cavemen (Carey and Jenessa) to ugly stepsisters (ugly in a different sense of the word), falling in love with those who you want to keep secret and then someone getting hold of your past you want to forget. These cavemen have just been taken out their environment and thrown into somewhere new and it's your job to teach them how to live your life. You build a time machine, and take modern life back to the cavemen times. In fact, let's paint the picture for you. It gave me the sort of caveman impression. I found it really fascinating actually how Murdoch managed to explore the adaptations that Carey and Jenessa had to take to adjust to normal life, and the threats that peers can sometimes pose. INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS THAT SADLY I NEED TO DESCRIBE THE BOOK IN THE BEST WAY. Then her father comes, and then a whole world comes. Carey holds a dreaded secret that could destroy them forever, but if she doesn't tell, it will ruin her future. They had only their drugged up mother for company and she would often go away for weeks at a time. Carey and Jenessa were kidnapped at a young age by their mother and sent to a camper in the middle of a forest they called the Hundred Acre Wood, partly because of their endless upbringing with Winnie the Pooh.
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