Girl A

You can endure an awful lot when you know that you'll be fed at the end of it.

Every now and again there will a story in the news, a truly horrific tale of neglect and abuse, it will make you despair for humanity and you will ask yourself how, in a modern society, something like that could happen. This book is one of those stories.

The story flips between then and now as we find out what happened to Girl A (Lex) and her siblings and how they've coped since escaping that horrible house on the moors. There are some shocking moments/revelations, especially towards the end, but don't expect something like Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, this book isn't like that and it doesn't try to be.

I really enjoyed this, the prose is excellent and despite the grim subject, it has a kind of innocence about it which made the ending kind of lovely, sad but lovely.