This is a really beautiful, meaningful book that I adored reading. I've been meaning to pick it up for a while and I'm glad I finally did.

I was particularly struck when reading by the empathy in this - the careful conceptualisation of experiences that would be dismissed as 'madness' as significant events regardless of the negative associations attached to them.

It's not a 'big' book, but it says everything it feels like it intends to and sets it in a beautifully described world packed with internal mystery that really spurs it forward. If you're happy to read a book that keeps you in the dark for a bit, plays with form, and wants you to sit with its meanings, this is absolutely for you.