When the body of Bronte, a girl who has been working in the local bar, is found on the beach, the events of the past come roaring back. If this wasn’t annoying enough, the story of Lex, a survivor of abuse, who travels around England in an effort to get approval from her estranged siblings to convert the house they grew up in into a museum was extremely repetitive and boring. I know she was trying to explain it to the reader, but she could have found a more believable way to do so. It’s a quiet, psychological exploration of how one of these House of Horrors—these terrible stories you hear about every few years—can actually happen.

its one of those novels that has genuinely talented writing and plotting so is worth a read for that reason - the rest is entirely in the eyes of the beholder. Other than her weird on-and-off relationship with some rando, there really wasn't much explanation for how she got where she is.Once the headlines have been recycled, what happens to the people who have been at the heart of these things? Alla base esistenze scombinate, insoddisfazione, frustrazione, rancore, ed altro, il tutto drappeggiato in una qualche fede cialtrona – qui di origine cristiana: ma poi verso la fine anche Cristo al Padre della famiglia appare troppo moderato, fiacco – bibbia fissa sul tavolo, educazione e cultura fatta in casa, via dalla scuola e via da qualsiasi frequentazione, niente contatto sociale, via dal mondo, isolamento, segregazione.

A captivity story usually ends with some serious action because the captivity usually ends in one form or another so you hold on trying to see how it all ends. Whenever the narrative is in this contemporary space, the prose is tense and dialogue carries a lot of the action, but it clear that the past is always present in some way.Anything could be Mystery Soup: cheese, coated in emerald fur, languishing away on the counter; a few scraps of fried chicken, in paper from the takeaway on the high street, which Father abandoned on the kitchen table; a year-old box of cereal, never unpacked from the move. I've seen some comparisons of Girl A to Room but Girl A is much darker and less sentimental about family as Girl A dives deep into what it would be like to be an abused sibling from a house full of other abused siblings. Now, years later, Then we have names such as Olivia and JP who are a mentioned frequently during the story but add nothing of any significance. Lex, known as Girl A, managed to escape and saved her siblings in the process, but none of them really escaped the damage done by those years of abuse and deprivation.