Victory Gardens

Victory Gardens tone

The tone of Victory Gardens

is very different from Patchwork Girl.

It is characterised,

with its obvious references to war,

by darkness,

fires,

explosions.

In one of its graphics the page is shattered

(…and…)

and the story comes to a dead-end with a completely black page, the title of which is a full stop - '(.)'

This creates in the reader's mind an uncertainty and a sense of danger.

Sometimes another writing space is reached, with the same name

(…and…).

This page seems to show the aftermath of a bomb from the point of view of a nameless woman who lies bleeding.

In other texts quite separate from this Thea and Veronica are portrayed as having some foreboding about Emily. Is it Emily who is dying?