Wow.

What an intense and deeply disturbing read that gives you an uncomfortable feeling in the pit of your stomach.

Staring with a mothers release from prison after serving a 5 year sentence (is that seriously long enough for the offence she committed?!) for aggravated child abuse you know that this isn't going to be a rainbows and unicorns kind of novel. We then go backwards in time 5 years to meet the daughter and victim of this torrid stream of abuse and how she is surviving now free of her controlling and abusive mother. You begin feeling angry about the injustice she has severed and devastated for the childhood she has lost but as the book progresses you start to get niggling doubts about how sorry you should actually feel for her.

I loved this dark and twisted tale and found myself getting overly involved in the book, I was reminding myself that they had both suffered years of abuse so its no wonder that they were both bat shit crazy to then remember it was fictional!

This is without doubt going to be huge next year and I cant wait!

Thanks to Net Galley and Penguin UK for the copy in exchange for an honest review.