![]() ![]() Julie brings home her boy friend, Derek, who finds out the truth about the mother. His two sisters treat him like that and dress him up like a girl. After their mother's death Tom begins to say that he wants to be a girl. The children put her in a big trunk in the basement, which they fill up with the cement that was left from their father's garden project. Now their mother becomes ill and three days after Jack's birthday she dies too. ![]() ![]() While he's doing that, he gets a second, fatal heart attack. Therefore he wants to cover his garden with cement. The father is very fond of gardening, but since he was struck by a heart attack, he has decided that gardening is too much work for him. The house is literally isolated from the world. Wolters-Noordhoff BV => the Blackbirds of 1993Īt the beginning of the novel four children (Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom) live with their parents in a large old house. They try to keep the truth hidden, but at the end, the police finds out. And those bags of cement put the idea into the kids their heads to use that cement to bury their dead mother in, so the world won't notice a thing. So he decides to cover the garden with cement. He used to like being in the garden, but because of his heart it's too much trouble for him. The father of the house is sick because of heart problems. ![]()
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