![]() ![]() Doll takes her off to a cabin where an old woman reluctantly takes the pair in. The child is, of course, Lila and Doll is to look after her. What is clear is that she is not the child’s mother. It seems that Doll slept at the house most nights though who or what she is, is not clear. ![]() Even when it gets dark, she is left there. She is crying and is then thrown out of the house. ![]() We find her, at the beginning of the book, as a very young child. This book, as the title tells us, is her story and probably not quite what we were expecting. Ames took a fancy to her and, eventually, at her suggestion, he proposed to her and they married and, at the beginning of the first book in the trilogy, had an almost seven year old son, though we only learned the boy’s name, Robby, in the second book. (And, if you have not read the first two, you should do so before reading this book.) Lila, as we have seen from both the perspective of John Ames, her (much older) husband, and from the perspective of the Boughton family, seems a relatively quiet, low-key woman, who suddenly turned up in Gilead, we do not know from where or why, and helped out in the church and in the Reverend Ames’ garden. If you have read the first two books in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead trilogy, you will know who Lila Ames is. ![]() Home » USA » Marilynne Robinson » Lila Marilynne Robinson: Lila ![]()
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