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The Dumb House By John Burnside (Paperback, 2015)

As a child Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence designed to test the innateness of language As Luke grows up his interest in language and the delicate balance of life and death leads to amateur dissections of small animals - tiny hearts revealed still pumping as life trickles away But as an adult following the death of his mother Luke's obsession deepens resulting in a haunting and bizarre experiment on Luke's own children
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As a child Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence designed to test the innateness of language As Luke grows up his interest in language & the delicate balance of life & death leads to amateur dissections of small animals
- tiny hearts revealed still pumping as life trickles away But as an adult following the death of his mother Luke's obsession deepens resulting in a haunting & bizarre experiment on Luke's own children

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Language - the method of communication used in different areas. Humans and computers have many different languages.
Small - something that takes up less space than normal.
Experiment - A procedure that is undergone to clarify facts and discover new unknown facts
Balance - Something that is evenly weighted to keep something upright.
Children - A young life form within the early stages of physical development,
Language - The way humans communicate either written and spoken.

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