2024 Paper Practice:
This extract is taken from the beginning of a novel by Eve Chase. Rita has a job as a nanny, looking after the children of Walter and Jeannie Harrington. She is driving Jeannie Harrington and the children away from their London home to another house, Foxcote Manor, in the Forest of Dean.
You now need to think about the whole of the source.
This text is from the beginning of a novel.
How has the writer structured the text to interest you as a reader?
You could write about:
• what the writer focuses your attention on at the beginning of the source
• how and why the writer changes this focus as the source develops
• any other structural features that interest you.