My review -
Sophie
lives with her two daughters, teenaged Chloe and her younger sister, Rosie.
Rosie is twelve years old and autistic. She is strong and has begun to express
her frustration by biting and scratching. Sophie puts up with it but when Rosie
starts to attack her grandmother, Diane, and her sister, Chloe, Sophie knows
the time has come to think about residential care. Her estranged husband now
lives in Ireland and Sophie knows he doesn’t understand how hard it is to keep
going.
The
characters in this book are so human, you can totally believe in, and empathise
with, them all. Sophie is left with grief and guilt as a result of sending her
daughter to live away from home. We’re taken through her own feelings and
thought processes. It’s very interesting to see her beginning to live her own
life again, though she can’t shake the guilt that she shouldn’t be. It’s a
lovely, sad, gripping but eventually life-affirming story. Highly recommended.
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