Freedom Through Fiction: Andrew Adamson's Mr Pip

Literature gives its readers the power to not only escape from, but also transform, real life. This is the inspiring premise underpinning Mr Pip, a film about a Bougainville teenager who finds solace in Charles Dickens as her village is ravaged by war, writes Carolyn Leslie.

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