When I read the blurb I thought about Pan's Labyrinth and I think there're some elements in common: the child, the isolation, the unknown and the wild.
It's a short story, more a novella than a novel, and you're immediately immersed in a eery atmosphere full of strange stories.
Izzy is just thirteen but the illness of her mother makes her the one who is in charge of cooking and cleaning. Her parents are lost in their life and do not seem to care: the mother with the young boy, the father an inventor.
Izzy is free to roam and she will be the one that triggers the changes.
A coming of age story mixed with folk horror. A story that surprised and i liked it.
Recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine